"Your defects are not irreversible."
"Your defects are not irreversible."
"..."
Those words kept echoing in Bandis's ears, like the lingering aftermath of thunder.
Bandis's first reaction was shock. His second was disbelief.
No one understood the Thunder Warriors' own defects better than they did. Those were irreversible flaws.
Bandis and his companions had not failed to try saving themselves. After their long Warp voyage ended, they arrived in the Calixis Sector and encountered the Maqua Rogue Trader dynasty.
The previous Rogue Trader patriarch of the Maqua dynasty had been deeply interested in the Thunder Warriors. He had wanted to help them solve their defects, but even after spending his final years and countless fortunes in gold and silver, he had failed.
Lisun had done even more than her father. She had even sought out xenos seers, the Blood Reavers of Commorragh, and contacted a white-haired traitor warrior in purple armor, but they had all been helpless.
The Blood Reavers' assessment of the Thunder Warriors was: overpowered expendable weapons of war.
They had already classified the Thunder Warriors as excellent weapons. But if their creator had intended to create super-soldiers capable of shouldering humanity's burden and conquering the stars, then the Thunder Warrior project had undoubtedly failed, because conquering the stars required more than mere combat prowess.
"You're saying... our defects... can be reversed?" Bandis asked with difficulty. "You mean reversed, not merely keeping us barely alive with drugs, right?"
"Without question." Qin Mo nodded.
"The Thunder Warriors are creations of the Lord of Thunder, and the Lord of Thunder now sits upon the Golden Throne. Unless he personally..."
"No... no, no, no. I saw that you have companions, or subordinates, who are clearly more than mortal flesh and blood. Their biotechnology might be more advanced than even the Lord