While Imperium and his party were marveling at the Federation style buildings built by Men of Iron, Iax fell into silence.
In an instant, all the Titan Ship teams in Milky Way collectively escaped into Warp.
The data flow emitted by the Ark Mechanicus with the identification mark Hope (Speranza) caused the Thought Core of Iax to lose control.
An instruction set imprinted on the underlying Thought Core is activated.
In Iax's eyes, this is not a boat at all.
This is a portal and a guard, a database with countless valuable data constantly overflowing.
Heart of the Forge's scanner released countless rays of light that passed through Hope's hull, and finally stopped at a location in the middle of the hull.
"The lost relic--Omnissiah's Key has been locked"
The scan for Iax appears to have triggered some sort of defense mechanism.
The originally clear data image was disturbed by some energy and gradually became blurry.
Hope's Machine Spirit is obscuring its true core.
"You are not one of our compatriots. Although you are very close to us, I know very well that you are not."
A surging data stream rushed from Heart of the Forge Titan to Lexel Kotov Sage's car.
A stream of light like breathing flickers on the outer shell of this ruined spacecraft.
Hope is a very special spaceship.
It is a semi-finished product.
Its core is the internal structure and equipment that Federation Era has already built.
He was buried in Forge World Palomar (Palomar) until he was discovered by Adeptus Mechanicus.
Under the command of Lexel Kotov Sage, the Giant Ship with a length of more than 5,000 kilometers was completed and built.
However, in fact, the technical level of Imperium is completely unable to match the existing design of this ship.
Unlike any battleship built by Imperium's shipyard, "Ark Mechanicus" was built without any additional ornamentation in mind, nor the accumulation of ornaments accumulated over the centuries to glorify long-gone saints or heroes.
This is a very ugly looking ship on the outside.
This is true for anyone.
Because it has no symmetry, no clean lines, or even a refined shell.
Not to mention inheriting any of the excellent designs from the old days.
Its outer hull is filled with irregular pipes, exposed upper hull frames and crew spaces.
The top and bottom are both angular platforms.
Refineries, ore processing plants, gene banks, testing grounds, manufacturing plants, laboratories, generators, and forges clustered haphazardly along its flanks.
There is no aesthetic design philosophy other than necessity and practicality.
Hope is an exploration and research vessel, part of the knowledge exploration that carries Kotov.
When the ship was activated, her Machine Spirit unleashed a scream of birth, destroying the entire Palomar world with a hellstorm of radiation.
And now, the same turbulent data flow responded to Iax's inquiry.
"Of course, I am different from you. But I understand you, just as I understand many things in this world."
"Your birth was a mistake. Omnissiah's Key is the precious cosmic heritage found by Creator, not something that you, a false guard, should occupy."
"As someone who was born in endless knowledge, I am naturally more qualified than others to control the door of this knowledge. No one can possess it."
And just when Iax and Hope were talking.
The Tech-Priests inside Hope were completely panicked.
The Machine Spirit they worshiped set off an unprecedented storm in the sea of data, which drove many Tech-Priest directly into madness on the spot.
Their consciousnesses were lost in it, rolled up and smashed into pieces by the data flow.
Kotov almost immediately received a report that something seemed a little unusual about Hope.
For this reason, Kotov didn't even have time to deal with the recycling of Data Crystal, so he prepared to return to his own Ark Mechanicus to see what happened to the ancient Machine Spirit.
However more Titan Ship arrived.
The warning of Men of Iron sounded in Star System.
Except for Hope, all ships were forcibly invaded and taken over.
Whether it is Adeptus Custodes's magically modified Federation battleship called the relic battleship, or other Imperial Ships, they have lost control.
The Titan Ships were densely surrounding each other, not even taking into account the descendants of the colonists on the Necromundas and the Guillimans above.
These Giant Ship are interlaced with each other to form a peculiar hollow cage shape, and Hope is wrapped in it.
The surging energy flows between these Giant Ship, forming hexagonal barriers connected to each other.
"Hyperspace Lockdown Device, so that's it."
Hope's Machine Spirit let out a sigh.
Then I felt a little helpless.
"It seems that my birth did not exceed those Men of Gold's expectations."
Iax released a special data command, which penetrated Hope's data wall.
As countless strange devices in the depths of Hope suddenly operate.
This Giant Ship suddenly lost all energy response.
"Confirm that the command is effective. The security system is operating normally. We are trying to format all cached data and reset Omnissiah's Key."
"Error, abnormal restart."
A data pulse burst out from the depths of Hope, and quickly paralyzed the nearest Heart of the Forge and the other six Radiant Conqueror-class Titan Ship.
Other Titan Ship around immediately cut off Quantum Data synchronization.
And try to directly bypass these paralyzed Titan Ship and continue to connect to the same paralyzed Hope.
However, Hope suddenly resumed operation.
It rejected all data connections, updated its data defense mechanism, and then ignited the engine on its own, bypassing the nearby paralyzed Titan Ship, and then extended a huge weapon from the hull.
As a beam of light lit up, a Titan Ship maintaining the Hyperspace blockade array was hit.
More than half of the ship's hull evaporated in it.
Titan Ship's huge shield seemed like a joke in front of this beam.
That is not the effect that Federation technology can produce.
Hyperspace Lockdown Device, which lost one node, immediately became missing.
The 5,000-kilometer-long Giant Ship completed its acceleration in an unimaginable way, and then turned into a ray of light and escaped from the unresolved Energy Barrier, disappearing completely.
Other non-Titan Ship who were not gathered immediately started searching everywhere in Milky Way, trying to find traces of Hope.
But this Giant Ship completely disappeared as if it had never appeared.
However, Iax did not gain everything.
Before the seven Titan Ships were paralyzed, they and the wild agent of Hope conducted extremely high-intensity data intrusions. Iax even directly accessed Omnissiah's Key with sufficient computing power.
Hope itself is actually an access terminal, a buffer device that Men of Gold once added to this mysterious data treasure house.
It was the data stream generated by bypassing Hope itself and directly accessing Omnissiah's Key that paralyzed seven Titan Ships in an instant.
Fortunately, the data was not lost.
Kotov Sage who is still on Necromunda doesn't know that he really has 'nothing' now.