Emperor's Surprise, a Thousand-Fold Light-Speed Spaceship

"That's right, Father! This is the most precious gift I could offer you: a spaceship capable of FTL travel." Leman Russ said, looking at the Emperor with a hint of pride.

So, you have a side like this, my dear Father! I thought you were always unflappable.

The vision he had seen was indeed true; the Emperor possessed an indescribable obsession with FTL engines.

"Is it truly an FTL engine? Where did you find it? Where did you get this spaceship, Russ? Looking at the comfort of this seat and its design, the pilot must be identical to us humans." Emperor began to carefully examine the small spaceship before him.

Can such a small ship really perform FTL travel? My Primarch wouldn't lie to me, surely!

How does its FTL engine operate? What fuel does it use? Emperor was filled with curiosity about all of this.

"I stumbled upon this ancient ship on the planet Fenris. Perhaps it is a crystallization of our past human civilization, or perhaps it was left behind by some other existence—who knows!" Leman Russ replied.

Don't ask, and if you do, I just happened to find it and don't know its origin. It's an FTL ship, do you want it or not?

Emperor nodded upon hearing this; as long as it did not originate from the Warp, it did not matter.

"Can it fly normally?" the Emperor asked.

"Of course! This is the ship's manual, and this is its remote control." Leman Russ took a calculator-like controller from his robes and handed it to the Emperor, along with a small booklet.

During the days since Axis had arrived, besides learning the language of Fenris, he had also been translating the language of the Dragon Ball World, so this manual had now been translated into High Gothic.

Emperor took the manual, watched it carefully for a while, and learned how to operate the ship.

"I am going to test the performance of this ship. You two take Leman Russ back to rest. Once I have finished testing its performance, we shall discuss your reward." Emperor waved at Axis and Leman Russ, then hoisted the eyeball-shaped ship and turned to leave.

Emperor did not want to deal with anything else right now; he only wanted to verify if the FTL engine was real.

Two Adeptus Custodes followed the Emperor, while the other two led Axis and Leman Russ to a room to rest.

"Russ! Do you think the Emperor will believe the origin of this ship? The excuse that it's an ancient ship is a bit far-fetched." After returning to the room, Axis asked.

Saiyan ships were standard equipment for the Frieza Force and were mass-produced, so they hadn't been created long ago. Emperor should be able to easily discover that the ship was less than ten years old.

"Hahaha! Don't you worry, little Wolf Cub! My father won't care about such trivial matters. As long as your ship can perform FTL travel, that is enough." Leman Russ patted Axis on the shoulder and said.

Some things don't need to be probed to the bottom; as long as it is beneficial to the Imperium and beneficial to humanity, that is enough!

Axis nodded thoughtfully. Indeed, as Leman Russ said, the origin of this small ship was not important; what mattered was the value it could bring to the Imperium, the Emperor, and humanity. That was enough.

"Get some good rest, my little Wolf Cub. I have to go check on my warriors! Don't run around while staying in the room." Leman Russ patted Axis on the shoulder and rose to leave the room.

He was much busier than this little Wolf Cub; he still had to look after the warriors in his tribe and deal with his gene-sons, the Astartes of the Space Wolves.

At this moment, on the deck of the Emperor's Dream, the Emperor took his most loyal Adeptus Custodes guards and boarded a landing craft, moving away from the human fleet to the far side of the planet Fenris.

After opening the hatch of the space capsule, the Emperor's own stature shrank, transforming from a height of over four meters into a sturdy man two meters tall.

He then sat inside the spherical spaceship and, following the instructions in the manual, started the eyeball-shaped craft.

The ship's FTL engine ignited, and it shot out, turning into a red streak of energy that vanished into the star system in an instant.

Emperor sat in the cockpit, watching everything through the red hatch. The light and shadows outside the ship flickered constantly; in the perspective of FTL travel, everything seemed to slow down.

In just over ten minutes, the eyeball-shaped ship had already left the planet Fenris and flown to a neighboring planet.

Within an hour, it had reached the gas giant of the star system. At this speed, it would only take seven or eight hours to fly out of the entire star system!

What kind of speed was this? This was a thousand times the speed of light! This speed completely satisfied the needs for short-distance travel within the galaxy.

Thousands of years ago, when human civilization was at its peak, human science and technology had evolved to an extreme state. The nanobots mastered by humans at that time could instantly consume a star.

Their power was beyond what current humans could imagine, but even the humans of that era had not invented a stable FTL engine.

An FTL engine was not just about simply exceeding the speed of light. To navigate the universe, a few times the speed of light was completely insufficient, and even a dozen times was not enough.

At a hundred times the speed of light, it would take a thousand years to cross the galaxy.

Warp travel could be completed in just a few months, or even a few minutes at its fastest—though, of course, it could take a thousand years or result in simply going missing.

If crossing distances of over a thousand light-years, several thousand, or even tens of thousands, the gap between a hundred times the speed of light and Warp travel was immense.

Peak humanity could have created ships capable of several times the speed of light, but roaming the galaxy was simply unrealistic, which is why the Emperor did not pursue FTL ships, but instead sought the Eldar Webway.

But this small ship changed everything. At a thousand times the speed of light, based on the galaxy's diameter of one hundred thousand light-years, it would take 100 years to cross.

Even so, this kind of flight was much better than the Warp. For distances within a thousand light-years, this small ship would need to fly for a year, and for anything less than a thousand light-years, it could arrive in a few months. It was completely comparable to Warp travel, and for voyages under a thousand light-years, it could completely bypass the Warp.

Although it could not completely replace Warp travel, this could significantly improve the living environment of humanity.