Chapter 111 Vast Knowledge
As sunlight streamed through the window, Rex stood with his mechanical scepter, now greatly enhanced in power, gazing at Omega's retreating figure with profound admiration.
They had truly forged a rapidly developing, civilized star sector by relying on countless prisoners. This wasn't just one planet, but a hundred. If one was an exception, the prosperity of an entire star sector could not be an accident.
The Primarch before them had grasped the laws governing the development of human civilization, and countless people had asked him about this over the years.
Rex took a small step forward and asked, "My lord, many forces within the Imperium have secretly indicated that I can immigrate ordinary people. A star sector filled with prisoners is too dangerous. Although I politely declined, I, like countless others, wonder why only prisoners are being transported?"
He glanced down at his scepter. "To be honest, I've always felt that ordinary people are better. At least they're much easier to manage."
Hermo watched quietly from the side. Omega gently raised his hand, sunlight shining on it. With his back to the others, Omega asked calmly, "Rex, if a tech-priest tried to take the mechanical scepter from you, would you give it to him?"
"No. The Mechanicus has a clear hierarchy; no tech-priest would be so disrespectful," Rex replied confidently, glancing at the scepter in his hand with surprise.
"What if this same tech-priest took a regular screw from the foundry? Would you object?"
"No, I don't care about such trivial matters."
Omega turned around, looked at the two people in front of him, and explained with a smile, "Rex, this is the answer. The ordinary populations of other star sectors are seen as scepters by those in power. They instinctively hold them tightly, and if anyone dares to take large numbers away from them, they will fight to the death."
He gestured toward the window. "But prisoners are like screws that can be discarded at will. We take them without anyone caring. We collected countless screws like these and forged them into a scepter. From the beginning, they were all human beings, without distinction."
Omega's smile widened slightly. "We have gained tremendously. The strange looks and doubts from the outside world are merely a minor price to pay."
The two men fell into thought after hearing this. They had only considered the convenience and hadn't thought of this aspect before.
Omega and Rex exchanged technical information, and Omega was surprised by Rex's vast knowledge. Upon asking, he learned that Rex had visited the technological spaceship where the Sage was hiding.
Over the years, the Alpha Legion had collected a great deal of alien technology. The sages had not handed it over to the headquarters of the Mechanicus but instead hid it away.
Omega intended to have his database extract a vast body of technical knowledge, organize it, and oversee all the countless technical branches beneath gravity technology. This would lay a solid foundation and allow him to expand space technology.
His space technology hadn't progressed for a long time, and Perturabo's ability to design weapons so easily had impressed him.
Rex provided coordinate locations. After bidding farewell to the group, Omega headed there with the data repository to access the knowledge.
Three months later
In a dim and vast starry sky, a thousand space warships moved at sub-light speed. Inside the bridge, Omega's mind held countless fragments of alien technological knowledge, forming a vast knowledge system.
Although the countless alien creatures in the Milky Way had different appearances and cultures, their scientific and technological paths in the real universe were similar.
No matter how different the appearances of laser weapons from other races might be, they all operated on the same principle.
Omega had learned countless things and built a knowledge system over the past nearly eighty years. These three months were merely for filling in a large number of technical details.
Company Commander Bright, standing to the side, was also brimming with knowledge, yet he remained deeply shaken. Only after truly entering the legion's core did one realize how profound its foundation was.
The legion possessed countless stores of technological knowledge. No wonder it had a large number of gravity bombs and gravity weapons, as well as rare antimatter bombs.
Company Commanders Skol and Norton remained calm. The Alpha Legion had a principle of secrecy, so having secrets was normal.
At this moment, Omega sat with his eyes closed in meditation, integrating countless pieces of knowledge with absolute rationality.
He gradually filled his understanding with numerous details, and a great tree of knowledge called science became taller and more intricate, with inspiration emerging in abundance.
Eighty years of war had given Omega a fundamental understanding of, and ability to apply, countless machines and weapons, and his mental training had reached an incredible level.
The amount of knowledge in his mind was now enormous, and it allowed him to understand everything from the construction of the entire star sector to the operation of the whole legion, down to how a single nail or a piece of steel was produced.
Only at this moment did he gradually understand the terrifying extent of the Emperor's vast knowledge. It was truly all-encompassing.
In the past, Omega had taken a biased approach to learning. He had subconsciously avoided learning the intricate details at the very bottom of countless machines, as well as various aspects of human culture and other knowledge that he didn't want to study.
Minor preferences, when magnified by the vastness of a knowledge system, can lead to a narrow perspective. A small error could lead to enormous consequences.
Now, suddenly having all of this made his head feel swollen.
As his horizons broadened, his gaze grew deeper and wiser. A misconception of omniscience arose in his mind, but it was quickly dispelled by powerful rationality.
He was somewhat grateful that he had trained his mind year after year in the simplest, most basic way, constantly compressing and refining his spirit to forge an incomparably powerful rationality.
While the vast amount of knowledge significantly increased the feasibility of faster-than-light spaceships he conceived, it had little impact on the advancement of space technology.
All the alien civilizations he had encountered with space technology were mighty.
The Rangdan alien civilization could build planet-sized warships and possessed space jump technology. Their spatial necromancy technology had reached an incredible level. The Orks were rumored to be able to create artificial moons and to possess space-jump technology.
Aside from these three, he had not seen space technology from other alien civilizations. Time technology was only seen in the Space Skaven civilization.
He had studied the staffs used by the Space Skaven to manipulate time, but they were more like auxiliary devices. Their time-manipulation abilities came from psionic energy, and the auxiliary devices had proved quite beneficial to Omega.
The psionic power of time travel originated from that strange, black, spherical dark god, so it was basically not worth considering.
If he wanted to learn more about space technology, that planet was the only option.
Omega opened his eyes. "Norton, you take the fleet to the target system first. I'll take Skol somewhere."
"Yes," Norton replied without asking any further questions. He was methodical and followed orders. Skol, on the other hand, was curious about where Omega was going.
In the vast, aging solar system, ten spaceships leaped out of subspace. Omega gazed at the blazing sun before him, a familiar yet strange feeling welling up within. Decades later, he had finally returned to this place.
Upon seeing the half-frozen, half-volcanic planet in the distance, Company Commander Skol immediately understood which star system they had come to.
"This is the planet Moyasco," Skol said.
As the warship slowly approached the planet, space-based observation data revealed that the alien secret base, once thousands of kilometers long, was now just a huge crater. Snow-white icebergs covered the entire surface. The once-mysterious base, the fragments of the Endless God, and the eerie artificial intelligence had all vanished without a trace.
"This..." Omega stared at the large crater in the planetary model data, somewhat surprised at what had happened here. He immediately realized that it was Alpharius who had done it.
The Thunderhawk gunship flew down from space and landed on the ground. Omega stepped out onto the solid ice and snow.
He stomped his foot, confirming that it was real and not just a disguise ability of the Rangdan alien. The powerful mechanical arm shattered the thick ice with a single blow.
The ground beneath was exposed, and Omega detected only trace amounts of radiation that did not affect the human body. Based on the surrounding geological conditions, Omega determined that this massive crater, spanning thousands of square kilometers, had formed within the past forty to fifty years. It was not a recent development.
He had never expected Alpharius to make his move so soon, but the fragments of the Endless God were known to be indestructible by any physical means. What exactly did his brother intend to do with them?
As brothers, Omega and Alpharius both felt that the other was too mysterious and unpredictable. Trying to uncover the other's secrets was too much trouble.
The Space Marines of the Alpha Legion possessed a powerful talent for intelligence analysis and always enjoyed secretly gathering all sorts of information. They were even more excited to explore the secrets that others kept hidden.
When the Emperor created the twenty Astartes Legions, he did not forge each legion into perfect warriors.
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