(Extra chapter thanks to .Meow Meow Hill Meow Meow.'s tip)
Once Water Blue Star's government construction got underway, Li Qinwu washed his hands of it and let them develop on their own. He began focusing his attention on space.
First came the T'au ship, which had now completed its Imperial conversion.
Its advanced automated equipment and AI computer control systems had all been replaced with old, bulky, but safe Cogitator Arrays and mechanical control mechanisms.
Li Qinwu then loaded the warship with weapons, ammunition, supplies, and fifty thousand crew members freshly recruited from Water Blue Star.
Then he planned to set off on the road to find the Dark Age of Technology colony ship.
The colony ship was located on the frontier of the Imperium of Man, in a place humanity's reach had yet to explore. It was extremely far away.
At the T'au warship's sluggish speed, flying there in a straight line would probably take ten or twenty years.
So they had to set out now. Otherwise, Li Qinwu would turn into an old geezer before they even reached the colony ship. How could he accomplish anything big then?
So after resupplying, the T'au warship set off fully loaded with humans, flying toward the Dark Age of Technology human colony ship.
Li Qinwu named this T'au warship the Explorer.
The Explorer first flew toward the system's sun for a while, creating the appearance that it was about to plunge directly into the sun and self-destruct. This gave Inquisitor Thraxol an explanation and let him turn a blind eye.
Then the Explorer immediately changed course and headed for the system's Mandeville Point. Afterward, it began skipping across the shallow layers of the Warp and vanished into deep space.
Previously, Li Qinwu had gathered several relics from the planet and built