Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Hive worlds, the empire is also the largest and chaotic human settlement in the history of human civilization. Each empire galaxy has only one hive world as the capital of the galaxy. This is the core of empire administration, justice, religion, and economic production.

Almost all Imperial hives can trace back thousands of years of history. When the planet ushered in the first colonial ship and the Adeptus Mechanicus built the first plasma reactor, the construction of a hive city was on the agenda. , finally ushered in this behemoth several centuries later.

Some hive cities even have a history older than the empire. Long before the Dark Age of Technology and the Age of Strife, these colonial cities that originated from the earliest colonial era of mankind had already existed among the stars like stars.

Countless cities, large and small, were eventually connected into one, and the land was filled with endless buildings. Towering spiers and gorgeous upper-level buildings rushed to the top of the sky under the overlapping of countless buildings and creations, while under the surface , the dense urban structure group has been built layer by layer, advancing layer by layer like a honeycomb, reaching the deepest part of the earth's core.

This is a great masterpiece of human civilization, symbolizing the complete conquest of a planet by humans, and also symbolizing the destruction of a planet. When such a giant hive is completed, it usually means that all the resources of the planet have been exhausted.

The uncontrolled reproduction of a huge population eventually overwhelmed the planet's ecology. Endless human descendants and their buildings and machines swallowed everything up, turning everything into a part of the ever-expanding city.

In the end, this planet can no longer create natural resources, and the only resource it can provide is human resources. Endless human resources, hundreds of millions of people are sent to other worlds in the galaxy, and The resources developed and excavated from those worlds are transported here through the giant orbital star port surrounding the planet's equator above the hive city, and are finally processed and cast in the factory that extends to the end of the earth.

Vito was sitting in the cockpit. He looked at the hive city below through the thick glass of the shuttle. The shuttle plummeted from low-Earth orbit. When he broke through the storm in the stratosphere, he came here and saw this behemoth directly. .

Thick smoke and toxic waste gas are rising from the surface. Even the sky has turned into a sickly gray-green due to the emissions from the Mechanicum factories. The forests and mountains have disappeared for generations, and the ocean cannot even glimpse its existence. Mark of.

Vito operated the driving joystick, and the streamlined and slender shuttle flew among the magnificent buildings. They plummeted and entered the hive city from beneath the gorgeous buildings on the top floors of the city.

Vito looked around. The surrounding space was completely covered with overlapping large and small buildings, arranged layer after layer, connected by sky platforms and roads.

The sun's rays cannot reach here. All lighting comes from various shop lights, street lamps and passing vehicles. The colorful lights merge together, just like a strange dream in an illusion.

"Ah, this kind of hive city again." Vito said with emotion. He has been to many hive worlds. To be honest, not all hive cities are so depressing and uneasy.

Vito turned the button on the instrument panel with his finger. After pressing several buttons in succession, the vector nozzle began to rotate. The shuttle slowly landed driven by the violent blue flames, and landed smoothly with the violent recoil airflow. .

The sturdy landing gear slowly lifted the hull, allowing this beautiful interstellar shuttle to land on the platform, and the vector jet gradually cooled down.

Vito walked out from behind the hatch below and stood on the platform deck. The entire platform began to move, and the heavy mechanical structure pulled the forward landing pad back to the main building in front.

The surface starport is the first stop for all non-aristocratic dignitaries after arriving on this planet, and Vito is certainly no exception.

Vito looked to one side. A heavy transport ship as huge as a tall building also landed on the giant deck. Cooling gas and negative pressure gas sprayed out from the hull, and billowing white mist engulfed everything around it.

Vito straightened his collar and looked forward. The parking deck was steadily pulled into the star port building. The solid reinforced concrete structure was like a bunker, rising around it and turning into a barrier, isolating the planet-level city. outside.

In the land star port, under the dome supported by huge metal brackets, the golden Imperial Sky Eagle hangs high in the air. Under it, countless large and small ships are docked everywhere. Travelers, rogue traders and cargo spacecraft workers come here. Coming and going, they walked under the giant spaceships. The noise and the rumble of the power engines formed the main theme here.

"Purpose of visit." A lazy administrator came up. He was holding a fortune-telling tablet and pointing on the screen with a sensor pen while mumbling something indistinctly. Fortunately, Vito could listen. Know what he is talking about.

"Tourism, visitors and travel." Vito said with a smile, and the administrator rolled his eyes, "Who would come to this damn place to travel and sightsee?" "Then what do you think should be filled in?" "I don't care, just visiting for personal matters. Well, 2,000 Imperial Sky Eagle coins as downtime and administrative expenses.”

As the young and lazy administrator spoke, a servo skull flew over. The skull floated in front of Vito, showing a card slot in front of his eyes.

Vito took out a black card from his arms, inserted it casually, and pulled it out after a moment. The servo skull returned to the administrator and made a mechanical sound of arrival, "Payment completed, landing allowed."

The skull flew away, perhaps to collect some money, but the administrator wrote and drew on the tablet without any care, "Name, ship name."

Vito smiled and looked at the ship exit at the end of the huge star port. There was a ship spraying slow flames and sliding into the runway. Judging from its logo, it seemed to be the Owen-4 world that he had visited before. transport ship.

On the side of the runway of the ship, there are several large cargo boxes piled up. The crew is negotiating with a few bald locals. Each of them has a snake tattooed on their arm, which looks very unique. snakes, but Vito was sure that all native species in the area were extinct.

But it seemed that the transaction was going very smoothly. They reached the deal smoothly. These local gang members were already paying. The star port guards on the side seemed to be blind and turned a blind eye to this. But Vito was sure that they were not blind. .

Vito shook his head slightly, seeming to be thinking about something, but the administrator was already cursing impatiently, "Hey! Idiot, name! Are you going to let me spend the whole day here?"

"Vito, Vito Constantine, this beauty is called Aquila, take care of her." Vito said and took the registration form handed over by the administrator. The latter shrugged helplessly, "We will, let's go now. Just do whatever you want."

"Hey, man, ask a question." "Your Majesty, ask, hurry up." The administrator stopped and shouted extremely irritably, while Vito still had a smile on his face and pointed to the distant place. Trading site.

"Where are those local gang members? What's the name of their gang?" The administrator looked over and then twitched his eyebrows. "The Pious Association, I advise you not to get close to them. They are religious lunatics who are hiding in the nest." "Religion? State religion? "Yes, yes, but they are crazier than the lunatics in the church. In short, you can stay as far away from them as possible."

"I'm curious, friend, in the chaos of Xia nest, why is the state religion so developed?" The administrator yelled irritably, waving his fingers, "Who are you? A scholar? Go ask those missionaries, don't Come and bother me.”

He walked away impatiently, with an extremely arrogant and perfunctory attitude. Vito smiled jokingly and looked at the young administrator walking away with his hands on his hips. He was curious, if he knew that he was facing a trial with his attitude just now. Officer, what will you think later?

Vito shrugged, but he was lucky not to be one of those neurotic colleagues, so the young man continued to carry his arrogant attitude until one day he was taught a lesson by some grumpy captain.

Vito touched his chin, looked thoughtfully at the Imperial Skyhawk above his head, patted the blaster on his waist and walked towards the exit of the star port.