Warhammer 40K: Return of the Men of Iron
Chapter 665

The Ancient Colonial Ship

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Without shield protection, the effect of Disintegrator Ray is very good.

Several Gaze-Renders took turns to fire and soon opened a large hole in the two-meter-thick outer armor.

Iax glanced inside the breach, which was the location of an outer deck corridor.

The entire hanging corridor is only five meters high.

This height is obviously not enough to allow Gaze-Render, which has a higher detection efficiency, to enter.

Even the body Iax himself uses is difficult to move.

However, Men of Iron's solution is simple and crude.

Iax jumped into the hanging corridor and then knelt on the ground.

The foot structure is readjusted under the action of Nanomachines.

A series of metal driving wheels pop out from the front of the calf, and the height of the machine drops to 4.5 meters.

The body almost fills the entire passage.

"Chi~chi~chi~"

The raised metal wheel rubbed against the metal floor of the hull corridor, making an extremely harsh metal scraping sound.

The sound gradually became dull and weird, and finally became quieter due to distance and complicated passages.

Iax is moving from the corridor towards the central area.

But soon dirt appeared.

After re-scanning the surrounding environment, Iax discovered an even worse fact.

This is just a fragment of the ship's hull containing the main Communication Device.

The main body of the spacecraft is not here.

This forced Iax to track down the precise location of the signal.

This piece of hull fragment was embedded very deep, and Iax was constantly scanning its surroundings.

From the cross-section analysis, the ship should have suffered a lot of structural damage.

The intact parts of the fragments reveal the simple and straightforward interior style of the hull, revealing the early pragmatism style of Federation.

Clear physical buttons and handles, various indicator icons, and clear warning devices fill the passages and walls.

Exposed defense devices and scanning equipment without retractable and flipping mechanisms are full of Old Era style.

The only metal walls of the hull cabins are torn and twisted, and some cabins and passages are blocked by the twisted hull structure.

In some cabins and cavities made of mud, damaged weaponry and various broken structural components were scattered wantonly.

The hull is also filled with a certain amount of radiation leakage.

It was obvious that the ship definitely did not land normally, but hit the ground in a tilted attitude.

Iax records every route he has traveled, and wants to figure out where this huge ship fragment came from by generating a detailed hull structure diagram.

When passing through several steeply inclined passages, Iax must not attach a new magnetic attraction device to its wheel drive assembly to ensure that it obtains sufficient traction.

After comparing the planting area, ecological cabin, Suspended Animation Control Room and a series of other important cabins marked on a hull structural diagram in the metal corridor, Iax successfully found the detailed structural diagram of the ship.

This is a Federation early model Colonial Ship, type code is B-21353.

Its code means that it is a ship designed during the 353. M21 period.

It has an ancient and practical design, equipped with the advanced 'artificial intelligence' auxiliary system and the most advanced STC processing system at that time.

The artificial intelligence of that era was still different from Men of Iron.

It itself is just an artificial 'strong intelligence' body, and it does not yet have the self-evolution and innovation capabilities of Men of Iron. At the same time, its mode of operation is not active self-response, but passive command response.

This new model Colonial Ship began to be widely adopted by Federation.

The concept based on STC had just begun to be laid out at that time.

These colony ships have begun to be equipped with STC systems.

It's just that there aren't many templates available.

In addition to carrying a large number of colonists, each colony ship also carries a group of Federation scientists.

Under normal circumstances, after these colony ships arrive at the colony Planet, these scientists will be awakened first to conduct environmental analysis and testing.

The colony ship will not land until Planet is available.

Colonists were awakened to become the first workforce of construction.

The rare STC Template can only provide some simple single-person defense weapons, industrial components and some emergency basic protective equipment.

The late Federation Colonial Ship is completely different from these early ships.

Men of Iron Intelligence Core does not use Suspended Animation to completely control and pilot the ship, Men of Iron is responsible for a lot of the work.

The rich and efficient STC Template allows Men of Iron to complete the construction of an entire city before the colonists wake up.

When the colonists woke up, a brand new, empty and complete city was already in front of them.

During these two periods, the colonists still had to establish settlements and defend themselves with force to ensure the success of colonization.

Iax compared the hull structure diagram carefully and quickly confirmed one thing.

This fragment came from below the bow side of the ship. The fragmented Suspended Animation area in front of us was filled with a large amount of calcium powder that had decayed into slag. They came from the remains of those Federation colonists.

A Colonial Ship can carry tens of thousands of people.

But judging from the stains and rust scattered here and the broken Suspended Animation devices, at least three-quarters of these colonists did not survive initially.

In order to understand the situation of the shipboard personnel, Iax tried to plan a route to Core Control Room located at Bridge.

However, Iax soon discovered one thing: Core Control Room was not on this fragment.

He walked along a maintenance passage through the six-story fragmented hull and climbed up two twisted elevator shafts before arriving outside the gate of Main Passage.

"Zizzi."

The flashing Laser opened the heavy door.

The collapsed soil directly submerged Iax and Machine Body.

It's broken here.

There is a torn access terminal on the wall nearby, with less than a third remaining. It is obviously damaged to the point of being unusable.

But Iax is not human after all.

Men of Iron doesn't need to be so complicated.

Among the many broken wire harnesses, Iax found the Master Control System cable connecting the hull.

With the access to Iax, all remaining information in this fragment, which is nearly one-sixth the size of the ship's hull, was extracted.

Massive data flows surged in Iax's mind.

But it is obvious that the broken hull fragments and the main body of the ship have long been separated.

Iax transfers the few remaining energy in the hull fragment to the Quantum Communication system inside the hull. This system is used to connect data to various terminals inside the hull. The hull fragment still has energy to maintain weak signal transmission, and the main body of the ship may still be able to operate.

The signal was quickly responded to.

A clear beacon begins to flash.

In the north of Planet, Primus Hive and the signal mark are separated by a huge mountain range. There is almost the largest trash can on Necromunda Planet.

"Who are you?"

In the data space, a tiny light point appeared in front of the data body of Iax.

"Why this primitive form of communication?"

Iax can identify the other party's data tag. This light spot is the Intelligence Core of this ship.

"I don't understand."

The small light spots imitated the appearance of Iax to form a human-shaped shadow, and then he looked at his changes strangely.

And Iax also understands this state of intelligence.

"Natural evolution."

A huge data stream poured into the other party from Iax.

This quirky Intelligence Core soon got a new twist.

Soon, similar data flow returned from the other party to Iax.

Artificial intelligence communication only takes a few seconds to exchange a huge amount of data, and Iax quickly understood everything.

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