"Is this photo of you?"
"this is me."
"Yeah?"
"It was me...at that time, I...was still alive..."
Calvin stood in the Titan's command room, looking at a silver-clad man across the glass of the life-support cabin. The data of the last captain was displayed on the data servo screen between the two.
Thanks to Constantine, Calvin didn't stay in Krieg for a long time, but he had a systematic study of various Titan structures.
Therefore, when he split the armored church with Imperial Truth, the Emperor-level Titan could no longer pose a threat to the invader.
The rest of the matter was easier to handle. Calvin walked all the way through the hall and into the desert, and the Titan's several attempts to seal the passage were ineffective under the influence of Helios' rope. .
It took the original body more than an hour to reach the core of the Titan - the command room where the captain was located, and the most troublesome thing for Calvin along the way was actually the selection of the line.
That's right, even the largest creation of the Adeptus Mechanicus on the ground, the incarnation of the Machine God in the Titan Legion, the space inside the huge Titan for the passage of people is still narrow and cramped.
There are many passages that even a human-sized pilot would have to hunch through, let alone Calvin's current body.
But fortunately, this Titan still needs maintenance. It is necessary for every Titan to reserve passages for large equipment to pass through, and the God of the North Wind is no exception.
So there was a conversation between Calvin and this creature who claimed to be the pilot of the North Wind God.
Of course, the communication process was not so smooth, especially when they first met, this creature made of metal showed extremely strong aggression.
But fortunately, Calvin is not a vegetarian. He used his martial ethics, currently ranked among the top two in the empire, to fully teach this creature the necessity of peaceful communication.
The two giants had a brief but friendly "communication" in the small command room, and then after the creature decided to return to the channel of civilized communication, they returned to the place where they first met and started the current conversation.
"So you're dead?" Calvin asked.
It was also the first time for him to see this way of life existing, and the composition of the other party's body was quite familiar to him - it was the liquid metal he had seen on the previous space hulk.
"I... confirm." The metal creature, or rather the former pilot of the North Wind God and the first-class Lord of the Empire, Gyanendra Speyer, also looked confused.
Although Calvin's appearance made him feel a long-lost threat, a person who could withstand the firepower of an Emperor-class Titan came to him and had a fist that could calm him down. After all, he would be the first person who could The object of peaceful communication.
The linear thinking brought about by this kind of communication was what he lacked most when he was in a trance state before.
"Then what's your current state?" Calvin asked again.
Due to the sensitivity of his job, he naturally screened Speyer from the psychic level at the first opportunity. The fact that the two people can continue to communicate also shows that Spier's state at this time does not have the characteristics of subspace life.
Then this matter is very interesting. Although Calvin had received clear guidance from the Bell of Erebus before coming, what he encountered here was still beyond his expectation.
He fully thought that he would find some more ancient objects on this Titan, but in fact, after he actually arrived here, all he got was the person in front of him who could not determine the life form.
"I don't know either..." Spier spoke faster and faster. Communication with creatures from the same civilization obviously accelerated the recovery of his consciousness. Memories finally began to appear in his mind with linear logic, and memories of his own death followed.
"I only remember that my body had an obvious genetic collapse in the final battle, and the out-of-control North Wind God swallowed all of me. I was completely integrated with the machine soul, and our enemy— —The traitor’s head was completely torn into pieces by us with an incineration cannon..."
"Then what?" Calvin continued to ask.
Narrating is the best way to sort out memories, and he was also aware of Spier's state at this time, and began to follow Spier's words in an attempt to obtain more information.
"Then?" Spier fell into memories. "Then there were cyclone torpedoes shot down from orbit, followed by earthquakes, the shattered earth and magma filling the field of vision..."
"So you failed?"
"No!" Spier obviously thought of more specific details.
"We had no chance of success. The Warmaster betrayed us, half the Legion did. We wanted to break away from the fleet, but the remaining brothers kept being split apart. We waited for a chance to rebel, and soon Unfortunately, they are too..."
Warmaster
This was the first time-conditioned information from Speyer's mouth, and Calvin roughly understood Speyer's origins through this passage.
The Titan Legion, the group that directly participated in the 64th Expedition Fleet, half of the Legion members rebelled, and the guy in front of me is the remaining group that was cleared...
But there was more than one forging world that cooperated with Horus, and there were even more Titan legions serving in the main fleet. The details in the command room had given Calvin enough information, but he still maintained a cautious attitude and wanted to Hear that answer personally from Spier's mouth.
"Your legion and position?" Calvin asked softly.
"Storm Lord, host of the fifth battle group, master control pilot." Spier replied subconsciously.
Yes, this is the right number.
Calvin looked at Spier and fell into thinking. The information this man said could match the intelligence he knew. The former Storm Lord Legion was indeed torn apart during the Great Rebellion and hated each other.
The two factions loyal to the Emperor and Horus fought to the death on the battlefield, and the once glorious legion never recovered.
The traitors eventually perished in the history of internal strife and war, while the loyal faction until now is said to still have some sporadic members active in vengeance against Chaos.
But no matter what, this legion no longer exists. The Titan and its driver in front of them have also been unearthed from history in the re-established Forge World after sleeping for nearly ten thousand years.
"What era is it now?"
"39 thousand years."
This time the questioner became Speyer, and Calvin told him about the current time.
"Oh, so..." This person who has died once is obviously capable of accepting it, but even so, there is still something he can't let go of.
"We..." Spier looked at Calvin and asked in a difficult tone. This was more of a trial than a question.
"I mean... did he... win?"
"No! We won!" Calvin's answer made Spier breathe a sigh of relief, even though he could no longer use this function.
"That's good...that's good..." Spier kept repeating this sentence, but Calvin remained silent.
"But the price is heavy..." This was what Calvin didn't say. He didn't know how to face this warrior, let alone how to explain the current status of the empire to him.
"How long have you been awake?" Calvin changed the subject pretending to be relaxed.
"It's been about twenty years, and I may have been conscious earlier. But the complete awakening should be an earthquake, or a precise blasting of a mine. In short, I woke up, and from that time I regained the power of the North Wind God. control."
Spier replied, and Calvin turned his attention to his current state. The information he gave was roughly the same as that provided by Hepper, but what Calvin really wanted to know was what brought this dead man back to life.
"Where's the opportunity?" Calvin asked. He wanted to know what the Bell of Erebus in his arms was guiding.
This strange thing has fallen into complete silence since it arrived at Heper, and Calvin did not find any other clues except coming here according to the information from the Honor Guard.
But fortunately, he came right. Speyer's state is obviously related to the legacy in his hands. His current body is composed of the psychic liquid metal that Calvin collected before.
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