The arriving Forge Ship was not large. That was Chen Xi's first impression of it.
Nor was it Goliath-class; it was a Forge Ship converted from a Tenacity-class Light Cruiser.
(Tenacity-class)
It was not a proper Forge Ship at all, more like the sort of thing made by modifying a Light Cruiser when a proper Forge Ship was out of reach.
But regardless, it was still a Forge Ship, and its owner was undoubtedly an Adeptus Mechanicus Sage. From any perspective, she was not someone Chen Xi could afford to slight.
"Tch, it's just a Forge Ship! My teacher has Forge Arks! What's there to show off about?" Ovilia muttered in binary beside Chen Xi, drawing a sideways glance from him.
Though binary was somewhat obscure and difficult for those outside the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Inquisition pawn Chen Xi was using belonged to The Inquisition and knew quite a few foreign languages. He happened to understand a little binary.
Speaking it was another matter; he could hardly match the convenience achieved by Tech-priests through implants—such as compressing ten minutes of binary profanity into five seconds of rapid playback—but understanding Tech-priest curses spoken at a normal pace was no problem.
Ovilia seemed to notice Chen Xi watching her and simply switched to Low Gothic. "It's true. I've personally seen more than one of my teacher's Forge Arks. She only has a Forge Ship converted from a Light Cruiser. What is there for her to show off about?"
For Belisarius Cawl, who had lived for ten thousand years, Forge Arks truly were nothing unusual. He did indeed possess more than one.
"Though I only have an unofficial Forge Ship converted from a Light Cruiser, it is still better than being declared a tech-heretic and ending up without even an apprentice." At that