Thank to nintendoplayer96v8 for helping with grammar
Chapter 7
A group of soldiers in power armor is standing over a group of unconscious people. Around them are corpses.
"Is that the last of them ?"
"Scanner doesn't detect anything, I think we are clear, ma'am."
"Alright, secure the perimeter and cast healing spells on our wounded. We are heading back."
The woman activated her com to make her report.
{Alpha squad to HQ copy ?}
{HQ Copy. Alpha squad report ?}
{We engaged enemy forces in the Khymos hive. 5 are injured, and we have 50 infected under sedation. No further sign of hostile activity, returning to base over.}
{Copy that Alpha squad over and out.}
"Ok, secure the infected and initiate the recall."
A soldier takes out a holographic scroll and places it on the ground, soon from the scroll a magic circle begins to appear, getting brighter with each second past.
"Recalling in T minus 5,4,3,2,1."
And with that flash of blue light, the soldier and infected are gone from Khymos hive and return to the newly built base out in the wasteland.
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Unknown Imperium year M41 - 8 months since Regulus Foundation - dawn break.
In his lab, Mikhail could be seen flipping through pages of a book at breakneck speed. Thick tomes each ten of thousand of pages long or data slate with terabyte worth of words are read in second, their content whether scientific or magical is absorbed and stored in his mind.
[DING]
[Your Int have increase by 1]
"Hah. That is enough reading for one day."
He gives a deep sigh, rubbing his face with both hands as he turns to look over the dozen piles of book and data slate, with each stack as high as a tall grown man.
His collection has grown quite massively now with over a hundred thousand books and still increasing as he buys more and more to increase his collection.
"Need a drink, my lord ?"
He turned to look at the girl where it all started. Whose chance encounter changed his fate forever.
"Yes. please, Aisha."
The girl brings him a large can of energy drink from the fridge. Which he chugs down in one go.
"Ah. That the stuff."
He breathed out a sigh of relief and moved to sit on the nearby sofa, cracking his neck and knuckle.
"So how is the mission in hive Khymos ?"
"The mission was a success, my lord. We were able to eliminate more than a few cells of the cult, as well as eliminate their weapon stores facility. We could consider a third of the cult weapons in Khymos to be eliminated."
"Year of weapon gathering smuggle out of the manufactorium wasted and down the drain. If they weren't horrible monstrosities, I might have felt bad for them. Well done Aisha send your troop my regard they were wonderful"
"Thank you, my lord."
"Oh that right, can you also give me the combat recording for the mission? I want to look over the data and combat video for a bit."
"Alright my lord. I will get to it."
The girl leaves the room back to HQ to send him the recording as he turns to look out the window of his tower to look at the base below.
'It still hard to believe how much we have grown'
He thinks to himself as he looks back on how far he has the new base was a necessity the under hive could only support our growth for so long without drawing unneeded attention and as more people begin to join we needed better infrastructure which the old base can not provide.
Plus, those bastards were beginning to catch on to what we were doing.
It was more efficient to move elsewhere and build things up from scratch, plus living in that dark depressing place where the roof can collapse at any time is simply just the worst.
We built this base over the course of three months of real time using upgraded SCV and a fuck ton of golem to dig into the ground and decontaminate it from all the toxic waste with alchemy, recycling trash into material by transmuting it or just buy the material with gold, ...
Thanks to the toxic dust storm which raged constantly across the planet and well-placed cloaking spell which kept our operation completely hidden, but just to be extra safe I also hacked into the Imperium database and monitoring system to modify them.
In the end we managed to build an underground base with the area of a 30 square mile with a total population of about 10000 people.
Recruitment was done in both the under and lower hive. We look at people and only after a thorough vetting process would we introduce ourselves to them and their family, if they are willing to go we would take them with us or if they don't want to go then we will be hit with a neuralyzer, and we would move on.
Of Course there are exceptions which are mainly orphan and Genestealer infected who we manage to recuse.
The infected are cured and then given the choice to either stay or be shipped back to the hive with their memory wipe. Most chose to stay after looking back at their experience, how they give birth to horrendous monsters and cuddle them like the sweetest little babies, and how the infection controls their mind.
Most would rather die than fall under Genestealer hands again, but a few still chose to go back either from their zealously to the Emperor or choosing to return to the only life they know which is with the cult.
Well you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink it and not even a charity can help those who don't want their help.
We send those cases back to the hive with their memory wipe, next time we meet them it will be as enemy.
The base is separated into 5 areas which is : the farm, the factory, the blue tower, the public area and finally Regulus HQ.
The farm like its name suggests is where we produce our food, and it is the largest area out of the five. Here we raise all sorts of vegetables, crops and animals.
The factory is where we treat and process the material harvested from the waste by both golem and SCV miner into weapons, armor and everyday products.
The blue tower is my own place. It is where I train and conduct my study, researching both magic and technology. It also acted as a school and library where I would train technician and professional as well as where the prime database is in dawn break
The public area is the living quarter of the base, fill with all the necessity a person could need. It is where the public could get educated and chose their future career either in the factory or the military
Regulus HQ is where our main military base and central intelligence is. It is where we train soldiers and operatives, sending them out as strike force or spies into the hive to conduct are also trained under a 5 time temporal acceleration field to give them the training they need.
The entire base is powered by an arc reactor technology, while the water it uses is both magically generated and recycled.
There is a matrix which collects and processes mental energy turning them into mana keeping it in the base for my followers to train in magic and martial arts.
We are finally kicking things into high gear in another 6 months of growth. I am planning a full on assault to take over the planet in one go and begin the process to fix this galaxy.