Out Of The Hive City

by the1andonlyLucian

We follow some Hive gangers with some lofty goals that have an incredibly determined leader with the gang members focussing on improving their individual skills they are already naturally good at. Follow them in this one shot story based in the 49th Millennium with an introductory section before the story giving a brief account of events up to the 40th Millennium.

Out of the HiveCity

In The Grim Dark Future Of the 49th Millenium. Man Has Risen in Technology and Fallen stagnant in the last twenty nine Milleniums after The Golden age of man where Technology was almost God like and many human Colonies were formed on habitable planets vast distances away from earth, Then the Dark age Hit in The 20th Millenium Autonomous Robots with their own Sentience produced Robots designed to help deal with the Increasing problem of the Ork threat coming in from the stars towards all colonies. A Warrior Race of Mushroom based Fungal entities that are Humanoid Shaped Large Green incredibly hard to kill and capable of instinctually producing technology to strengthen their assault and upon death release spores that only take a month to produce a fungal Forrest that in a year will grow many hundreds and Thousands of Ork and their fungal offshoots like Gretchin, small fungal creatures that worship the orks and follow their every word to get respect they help run some vehicles in battle, Snots creatures even smaller than gretchin that help maintain vehicles in battle as the vehicles move along with Orks that instinctually know how to build and repair equipment . These Robots after destroying the Ork threat started Massacring human populations across all the stars leading to the Population destroying all automated sentient machines and the war ultimately destroyed all automated equipment. And The Warp a dimension they used to travel vast distances in a short time was quiet until Unknown to the Humans, The Eldar space Elves had spent generations doing increasingly Horrendous and unconscionable things to each other to get sexual satisfaction, creating a Twisted Powerful Warp entity that sucked the life force from the Majority of the Eldar, essentially critically endangering their species in one day. In that instant of the Warp entity being created, Humanity lost the vast majority of its transport fleet travelling via the warp between their colonies as it became rough and wild like a sea with Daemons invading the ships wiping out the population, ships filled with daemons that traveled in fleets through Gravity welded themselves together creating Space Hulks that sometimes drop out of the Warp then after a random amount of time Enter the Warp again. Some Orks who were on a planet or and Lucky who had flying machines capable of space flight called Fighta Bombaz or were in Krooza space craft nearby smashed into the Hulk adding to its ships delivering hundreds of thousands of Orks upon the Space Hulk, growing in number inside the hulk as they grow bored and fight each other growing on mass then attacking whatever worlds the Hulk Drops out at.

With the sudden Loss of resources the populations panicked Creating Mayhem, civil wars broke out destroying and damaging almost all automated Factories. With the loss of so much technology and so many humans dead many worlds did not recover. Some worlds devolved into primitive tribes with technology from a long forgotten past, others managed to survive and rebuild. Then not long later the Psycher crisis occurred, many Humans were born with Psychic powers many worlds chose to accept this new development, but this was another tragedy as the Warp God Entities fed on the emotions on the humans and remaining Eldar spawned more God Entities in the warp which created daemons to takeover Psychic human bodies. Another generation of war had to fought to rid themselves of the Psychic threat. Primitive worlds who were easily scared by anything new killed off the Psychics as they showed themselves.

Only a Small group of worlds that could travel short distances through the warp to at least anther colony or were self sufficient enough in their system mining all their planets survived. Even Fewer were smart enough to worry about the Psychers, Locking them up in space stations learning from them, trying to understand how to safely control the Psychic warp energy. Leaving only a Hand full of Worlds that survived Relatively intact.

On Earth in the 30th Millenium A Psycher of Great Intelligence, determination, power and skill in Bending the Warp Powers to his Will helped Earth rise out of the ashes. Techno barbarian warriors with Technological mechanical enhancements lead by Techno Barbarian Warlords were waging war on each other for the remaining Resources with the remaining advanced weapons and war machines of ages past as well as newly made simple Projectile weapons and simple war machines reminiscent of the 21st Century in the 6th Millenium since man first began writing on stone.

He Killed a Warlord and convinced all the Techno Barbarians to Join him, with the warriors Agreeing he began work creating a new breed of Warrior, he created new Powered Armour, New Projectile weapons that fired Projectiles designed to explode upon penetration called Bolt Guns. He Created and implanted Biological Organs That enhanced the Warriors even further calling them Thunder Warriors. He then united the Planet with these warriors through brutally And Forcefully taking control of the entire Planet, becoming the Emperor of Man.

Then he got to work creating The Primarchs his Biological Children who were Implanted with all the Biological enhancing Organs plus an extra organ enhancing the longevity of their life and an organ to grow two of every Biological implant.

He made Space Marines Based off of his Sons Biological makeup including every single biological implant organ. The Emperor decided that the Thunder Warriors and the new Space Marines would clash so he ordered the Space Marines to Wipe Them out. Then the Primarchs still children were taken away by The warp Entities and sent to planets far and wide. The Emperor created a Powerful Psychic Barrier that the Warp entities couldn't Penetrate.

The Emperor had Wiped out Religion on Earth and drilled into his subordinate Space Marines to rely solely on skill and experience not faith. He then Used all the surviving descendants of engineers of all types that had knowledge to design and build ships to take him to the stars Find his Sons and bring in all the lost worlds of Man.

The Emperor created a Psychic beacon on earths location in the warp then Trained All Psychers harshly so they could become either Navigators to find The Location as a stationary point to start charting maps and always find their location. Or they were Trained to become Psychers so that they could communicate to each other over vast distances by wrestling warp powers to their will.

They built a large Battle ship in the earth solar system calling it a Gloriana Class and traveled to the Colony of Mars that had survived the catastrophes intact and had better technology than Earth now renamed Terra. The Emperor invented and got installed Gellar Feild Generators that protect the ships from Daemonic Incursion and Also Warps Bane Hulls were also Gellar Feild generators installed outside the hull hidden underneath Golden covered armour Embellishments, providing extra protection from Daemon Incursions.

The Mecanicum leadership and forces of Mars were too strong and a war would devastate everyone involved leaving not much left after so the Emperor formed an Alliance and allowed the Mechanicum Empire to Expand to other habitable worlds that were not former colonies and build Forge worlds as long as they provide transport of advanced weapons equipment and war machines as well as repairing and maintaining those machines.

The Emperor also Ordered Smaller Conquest Star Galleon ships to be built as well as Larger Grand Cruisers that he gave to Deserving Humans that also had Financial mind sets to be Rouge trader Dynasties to bring worlds into the Imperium.

One Battleship was built and given to each and every Legion as well as Grand Cruisers.

The Empire continued into the stars with multiple Space Marine legions going seperate ways to bring in lost colonies of man and to find their respective Primarchs.

Eventually all the Primarchs were found. But then Horus, one of the Primarchs discovered that the Thunder Warriors were Betrayed and Massacred on Order from the Emperor. A Warp entity had lead Horus to make the discovery to use Horus's Rage to Corrupt him, his Legion deform their bodies granting them power and use their Bodies to feed on all the emotions of Rage of every Person they Kill. Horus convinced many Brother Primarchs and their Legions to accept the power of The warp entities now known collectively as Chaos.

One primarch Known as Lorgar who was raised religiously created a Religion based on The Emperor, the Emperor Banished him along with his legion who stayed with their Primarch despite the orders from the Emperor.

Lorgar did not fight in the Civil war instead continued to spread the word of his religion.

With the forces of man set against each other a brutal civil war broke out solely between the Space Marine

Legions and The Emperor.

During the Civil war Horus almost killed The Emperor and Magnus another Primarch who fell in with Chaos created a hole in the Barrier allowing daemons to enter Earth.

The Other Loyalist Primarchs Killed Horus and forced the Traitors to retreat as they were loosing the war.

The Emperor dying was transported into a device called the Golden Throne to better Preserve the Emperors body. While dying the Emperor used his psychic energy to seal the hole but was not strong enough, then one of his closest Psychic Friends gave all his psychic power to the Emperor, allowing the Emperor to seal the Hole in the Psychic Barrier. With the Traitors defeated they scattered into the warp along with their surviving Primarchs.

The Emperor slowly dying on the golden throne then set up the Inquisition to Find any and all cases of Heresy or Betrayal of The Imperium of Man especially to find and destroy the Traitor Space Marines by using the Grey Knight Legion of Space Marines to Back them up.

Then The Emperor set up the High Lords of Terra, One Representative from The Space Maines, The Highest Ranking General of The Legion of Space Marines That were based On The Emperors DNA, The Highest Ranking General from The Imperial Guard the Imperiums standing Army made up of Normal humans and A Representative from the Mechanicum Empire. All to make decisions on his behalf.

Then Ultra Marine Legion Primarch who only arrived at the tail end of the war created a Codex of Rules for the Loyalist Space Marine Legions That ruled that to prevent heresy to spark and grow, the Legions must be split into Chapters of no more than one thousand Marines, as well as Indoctrination of Loyalty to the Imperium of Man and The Emperor.

They all eventually agreed to prevent further war though not all took the Rules to heart. Only The Ultra Marine Chapters stuck true to every single word of the Codex.

All The Legions and Chapters went off to hunt and Kill the Traitors with all The Primachs being lost in the Warp with Only The Ultra marine Primarch retreating with a near fatal injury held in stasis in Macragge, The Ultra marine Homeworld.

Then Lorgar reappeared just after the Next Millenium and Convinced the High Lords of Terra to allow one Religion Worshiping The Emperor of Man. They agreed with Logar creating the Ecclesiarchy who became immensely powerful as they forced all inhabitants of the Imperium to join the Religion.

Rejuvenation Treatments were Invented by Biological Engineers that were able to duplicate The Longevity organ Implant From the Primarchs so individuals with Enough Thrones can have their lives extended Far Beyond natural Life expectancy To five hundred years. With this Implant it was possible to live Forever if you have enough Thrones to get the Old Organ Implant removed and a new Organ Implanted.

Thrones are The Currency of the Imperium of Man, Though most Citizens of the Imperium Will never See one. Only The Rouge Traders, Rouge Trader Captains and Officers, High ranking Imperial Navy Officers, High Ranking Imperial Guard Officers, High ranking Inquisitors and High Ranking Ecclesiarcy Leadership, Mechanicum Tech Priests, Criminals and Mercenaries will ever get to see, Hold and spend thrones as all worlds in the Imperium pay working citizenry in rations and a small amount of token currency to spend on material things, to give them some tiny sense of control.

To Keep the Emperor alive The Inquisition also searched the stars for rouge Psychers to test their will those who fail willpower tests to become Registered Psychers are Forced to give their psychic energy to the Emperor in the Hope to keep him alive. These Ships are colloquially known as The Black Ships.

Then many Milleniums Later The Ultra Marine Primach is released from Stasis fully healed, informed on the current state of affairs, he traveled to Mars to get the Techpriests working on new inventions. Then one tech priest called Bacall, after working on DNA from all space marine chapters including heretic created a new breed of Space Marines Called Primaris who were better in every way.

On the Forge world Felanox, in the Calixis segmentum( region in space with at least 100 worlds), that was founded by the Falatio Rouge trader Dynasty some time in the 40th Millenium, Nine millenniums have passed since it's founding , it has grown large over time, and with time generations pass and it has become a full hive city with many manufactorums and many other hive cities with manufactorums. As with many hive city's in the Imperium of man some residents detest slaving away their lives building weapons, armour and equipment for others, getting up early every morning, working twelve hour shifts, and their payment? Nothing but Rations and a pitiful amount of Token currency, instead some preferring a life of crime, living in the lowest levels of the city, hive gangers thrive making and selling narcotics, others choose to sell stolen weapons. These scum are usually unarmoured, mostly unskilled and lightly armed with seven shot automatic pistols known as stub automatics but one group of hive gangers are different from the rest.

The Reds, to the untrained eye these four gangers look like any other, but that's what they want you to think. Under the Leadership of Max short for Maximus from Alpha Hive Level 1 subsection A Residential Complex 297 dwelling 1209 his three sub ordinates all from the same Complex and childhood friends have trained their combat skills and natural proficiencies to their strengths.

Jo short for Josephineus "The Tigress" she might not look like Much good in a fight in her short red dress and black leather jacket, but many men can attest if their ego would allow them to admit it, that they got their face smashed in real good straight to the Hospital just like Sarah Connor from terminator, an ancient pre dark age moving image for entertainment.

Mike short for Mikaelus "Sharp shot" the moment he got his hand on a gun as a kid from the resulting corpses at the end of a gang war, he emptied it at a target and practiced with all the ammo he found becoming the arguably best shot in the entire hive.

Minnie short for Minneus the born Genius and armourer of the gang, she started early learning how to make black power , solid projectile weapons and ammo from a data slate she stole from a tech priest, becoming a demolitions specialist , always on the look out for data slates on anything to add to her knowledge base . She believes that Knowledge is power, so when she heard that the rouge trader dynasty family member living at the top of the hive had a small collection of three data slates dating back to the beginning of the Imperium She sneaked in and stole them, escaping by luring the arbites into a lane way rigged to explode, cutting off any chance to catch her.

Finally Max himself, a dreamer, he wanted to be more than his father, slaving away in a manufactorum, day

In day out, then he got sick, going to the hospital, with Rows upon rows, almost never ending hallways filled with beds of the dead, dying and soon to be dead. Max went every day to see his father deteriorate as he waited for a healer to help him, he and his mother Prayed to the Emporer for him to get better however months passed and his father only deteriorated, finally the healer looked at his father, however by then it was too late, the simple fever, was too far gone and his father too weak for any medication to be effective, instead only he received tablets to dull the pain, a few weeks later he died. Max did not want to be used up like that working sun up till sun down for twenty years only to get sick and die like his father, no that was no life for him, he was no slave to the Imperium of Man's manufactorums, Some God he turned out to be faith in the Emperor Will only work if nothing bad happens, and in the grim dark future there is only pain and suffering for the masses. He would fight tooth and nail, steal, kill whatever he could to get out of the hive city and in control of a ever expanding fleet of ships making tons of money supported with an army of well trained skilled soldiers.

So he gathered his group of friends and shared his dream, together they agreed with his idea. To get ideas on how to begin training they watched the Planetary Defence Force of the planet train on their monthly training session, based on what they saw they amped up the training so that they would only stop when they physically had absolutely no energy to even lift a finger. They stole guns from gangs and set up an obstacle course outside the city with guns firing live rounds in fixed positions so that they would miss but their impacts clearly visible, Minnie made grenades that explode just out of the blast and shrapnel radius. They all went through obstacle course, then they would run for long distances with fully laden packs filled with ammo and camping supplies weighing twenty kilograms running as fast as they can. They did all the Kinaesthetic exercises that they saw the soldiers doing, from push ups to sit ups, to Jumping jacks, to Burpee's( push up then stand up), they did all of them until they could no longer continue, rest then do the next exercise until collapse. They also practiced hand to hand combat by simply fighting each other, getting experience and learning techniques through trial and error. Minne was the worst at hand to hand while Jo obviously excelled.

Minnie would make drugs from studying stolen drugs and reverse engineering them so that she could make them in the early morning to sell so they could buy Top Quality healthy fresh food, not the questionable rations that they were used to eating. Soon Minnie had made semi automatic guns with 18 round magazines for all of them. They all practiced shooting, stealth and all other combat skills, which they improved however Jo was not as good as Max or Minne at shooting or stealth, still preferring hand to hand combat.

Their willpower sky rocketed as they got used to moving under fire, each decided to specialise in certain skills but all trained their leadership skills through coming up with situations and being confident in decisions made.

Jo focused on strength like hand to hand combat, Athletics and skill using a close range weapon like a sword.

Mike focused on agility like stealth, and shooting.

Minnie Focused on gaining as much knowledge as she could by stealing all the data slates she could get her hands on, even learning how to be a Medicae Healer, gaining Tech priest levels of repairing machines. She even showed her innate genius when she started working out and rediscovering the equations lost to mankind behind electrical devices after she built a device to measure the voltage of electrical energy of a vox caster radio circuit.

Max focused on Fellowship related skills like Persuasion and Deception.

They kept pushing themselves to improve so much that by the time they were eighteen their harsh training regimes had become a habit. Piloting skills were also trained as they managed to steal a small bomber aircraft from the PDF making an under ground hanger using hand tools as part of their training. Now of age and fully grown they now waited to hear of news of the latest Transport arrival.

While waiting they decide to steal the superior weapons and armour from Arbite Police by testing their mettle against them. They catch two unawares in an ambush Jo charged at one and tackled him to the ground pinning him down. The remaining officer was tackled by Max and with great effort pinned to the ground, then both Max and Jo snapped the necks of the officers stripped them of their human sized Bolt Pistols, Shock sticks, Arbite Carapace Armour and any other equipment, hiding their bodies in a skip.

They then stole a car and drove to another area and caused a disturbance to alert some Arbites to their ambush, the same occurred except this time Minnie and Mike tackled the arbites, Minnie used a knife and Jo used her shock stick shocking the Arbite unconcious, Minnie then stabbed him in the neck killing him while Mike tackled then pinned and snapped his targets neck, taking all their equipment and hiding their bodies in a skip.

After hiding their new equipment in the same place as the bomber they returned to their homes.

After a year news of a transport finally reached their ears, it was a Jericho transport, he studied all the ship classes and knew each ships approximate specifications by heart, the Jericho had one inbuilt Hold, 3 weapons, one on the prow, one starboard and one port, it was on average 2.25 kilometres long and 0.3km abeam with twenty thousand voidsman keeping the ship in prime working order. This particular Jericho had three Of the best MacroCannons , Mars MacroCannons each with a range of 6 Void Units or 6 Million Kilometres. Macro Cannon barrels are so huge in diameter they can fit a double story house in the barrel, and they fire a solid projectile, loaded by a thousand men using chains and pulleys taking about half an hour to reload. It also had a Gellar Feild that's supposed to stop daemon incursions and other bad things that can happen in the warp, another dimension that the ships travel through. A void Sheild that protects against one attack from void ship weapons, a warp engine, a plasma drive that generates power and powers the thrusters steering the ship in either the warp or in the void( space), A commerce bridge that just controls the ship from one point nothing fancy and pressed crew quarters, basic life sustainer and a basic auger array.

Quickly they got their Arbite equipment and demanded to be transported onto the ship with falsified documents, once the ship landed on the planet, they entered and immediately looked for hiding places, finding a maintenance tunnel hatch they entered. Minnie managed to get a lay out of the section they were currently in, travelling through the maintenance tunnels for weeks they got a complete map of the tunnel system, to the point where they could reach any part of the ship at any time for whatever they wanted mainly stealing the captains supply of fresh food. Taking off their armour and equipment they made a place in the Tunnels to hide their equipment, they posed as voidsmen space faring crew of the transport who usually only live on one ship for their entire lives, after stealing voidsmen uniforms they posed as them and transported crates of fresh food on to the transport. The equipment and vehicles supplied by the forge world were fighters, bombers, Tanks, artillery Tanks, anti air Tanks, sentinel walker scout vehicles, medkits, Lasguns, Laspistols, Lascannons. Power swords, flak armour, flack coats, human sized Bolt pistols, Astates bolter rounds, Astates Heavy Bolter Rounds, typical Heavy Bolter Rounds typical bolt rounds ,auto cannon rounds, bayonets, all guardsmen equipment from the back pack, to a sleeping bag/tent, to a collapsible shovel, mess kit and gas mask.

Back in the ship they hid in the maintenance tunnels, they waited for the ship to take off. When the shaking stopped a few hours passed and as they looked through a porthole they saw the planet they grew up on grow smaller until it became a dot and disappeared.

During the next a few weeks as the ship exited the system they blended in with the voidsmen and convinced the crew to mutiny and take the ship over to kill all the Rouge Trader Officers when they called for it, they secretly organised the crewmen under four leaders each leader a gang member. Then after a few weeks they were looking outside a porthole when suddenly the porthole cover slammed shut and they heard an announcement "Preparing to enter the Warp"

They then felt different almost like they were going to be sick, but also not sick, it was weird and uncomfortable. They had heard of this from the voidsmen they talked to when they were younger, travelling through the warp makes you feel weird but you get used to it over time, time is also different within the warp compared to out side, a day in the warp could be up to 100 days outside the warp. Magic humans called Navigators with deformities Navigate the warp and pilot the ship with their psychic powers with in the warp. However outside the warp any one can pilot a ship if they can learn solely from observing how to pilot the ship, though the turning circle is incomprehensibly massive and the ships are slow to respond.

Now inside the warp the gangers gear up and make their way through the maintenance tunnels towards the bridge, Jo managed to improve her sneaking skills over the time travelling out of the system. They came out of the closest maintenance hatch to the bridge in Full Arbite Carapace Armour and armed with Shock sticks, bolt pistols and all Arbite equipment, they ordered the mutiny via a vox caster communication device, Minnie hacked and opened the door to the bridge and took the leaders by surprise. There was a Rouge Trader Captain in a 18th century style custom Flack coat with Gold wire stitching and Tassles on the shoulders with solid gold Buttons, underneath his shirt was clearly wearing body glove armour, on his head was a 18th century style custom Captains hat with Flack armour and Body glove armour stitched inside with Gold wire stitching on the rim. He was armed with a hand Flamer and a surprisingly large Bolt Pistol with the Gold Imperium Eagle Machined off.

Next to him was an Arch Militant in Full Carapace armour, Armed with a Hotshot Lasgun and another Surprisingly Large Bolt Pistol with the Imperium Eagle off.

There was a Tech priest in Full Power armour armed with a Flamer and an Omnisian Sword.

Next to the console was the Navigator who was armed with a typical Boltgun and a Bolt pistol.

The Gangers took full advantage of their surprise and attacked, Jo Tackled and Pinned The Tech priest to the ground, the rest fired their bolt pistols.

All the leaders were injured except the tech priest who was now pinned and could not get out. The Captain, Arch militant both braced themselves then fired while Navigator just fired his bolt pistol, Max and Jo were hit by the large bolt pistols while mike was hit by the normal bolt pistol. With great determination Max ordered in battle code "Kill The Captain, keep the rest alive ." Mike took his cue aiming at the captains head with his bolt pistol and fired, the Blast blowing the Captains head Apart. Mike and Max charged and tackled both the Navigator and the Arch militant pinning them both to the ground. Max after all were pinned stated "you're Captain is dead, if you swear loyalty to us not only will we not kill you but pay you two percent of the total money made from every transport delivery of this ship to each of you."

Pressing the issue using all his powers of persuasion " you are all at our will, if you accept it is win win not only will you live but you all will be rich."

The arch militant spoke up first "well that's way more than the salary I was paid before, I'm with the guy with the most thrones and I prefer to live."

Soon the rest followed in the same sentiment, Minnie used her intelligence to determine whether they were planning to betray them the first moment they could, looking at each of their facial features intently, after much deliberation in her mind she was satisfied that they would not betray them, but she would have to set up an insurance policy to watch their every move.

Looking at the wounds of the gang and the now controlled void ship leaders under their command she used her Medicae knowledge to examine the damage dealt and heal all living persons. Comparing the damage between the bolt pistols lead to the conclusion that the larger bolt pistols were Archeotech and dated back to before the Horus Heresy and were Legionnaire Astates Bolt Pistols, but they used the same bolt rounds so the explosion damage was the same but the entry wound of the armour was more easily penetrated by the design of the Astates weapons.

They learnt that they had been attacked by a Heretic ship who fired four boarding torpedoes each with a heretic Space marine on board.

2 got destroyed but the other two plowed through the armed voidsmen straight to the bridge, they were defeated after a great battle.

They were told that the Captain got the idea to cleanse these weapons of their corruption with fire. Using a stick to eject the magazine and remove the legionnaire bolt rounds then used his hand flamer to cleanse the weapons and empty magazines with fire.

It took many weeks but they were finally free of corruption, all the Legionnaire Bolt rounds are in a case in an open window that almost always faces the sun. Mike took the Rouge traders Legionnaire Astates Bolt pistol.

During the five day warp travel Minnie managed to employ spies in the ranks of the voidsmen and even made a friend with one of the lesser Navigators that were born grew up and trained on this void ship. On the fifth day there was an individual demon incursion that was easily handled. When they exited out of the warp. Mike and Max organised the voidsmen to start training like they had. Minnie found empty hardly used corridors and transformed them into training grounds, using the Lasguns on board at the lowest level constantly firing and to miss the voidsmen as they traversed the training ground.

Jo and Minnie ensured that they stuck true to the kinaesthetic regime and twenty kilo pack endurance training. The crew were split into two teams, one team trains on their off hours while the others rest on their off hours to recuperate, and they change places often. In Reward all voidsmen with their questionable Rations received fresh food from the Captains Storage.

They found that their destination was a War world, they sold all the lasguns that were not being used for training, kept twenty thousand guardsmens equipment and armour for the crew and an extra twenty thousand Lasguns to be used by the voidsmen in boarding actions.

Having offloaded all the sold equipment they moved on to the next destination an Astates base of operations to deliver Astates Bolter Rounds and Astates Heavy Bolter Rounds. Now with everything sold and offloaded with all the Thrones in the safe, they headed back to their Forge world to collect more weapons, vehicles and equipment to sell.

When they arrived back there was a ship waiting to greet them, after an Auspex scan was done by the Techpriest it revealed that it was the Falatio Rouge Trader Dynasty Flagship Conquest Class Star Galleon here to collect the Patriarchs payment.

Minnie immediately ordered the Tech priest to make it look like the ship was heavily damaged. Then she set about ensuring that it would work by taking charge of the Tech priests on the ship. Max knowing What Minnie was thinking Then ordered the Gangers to hide all the Thrones in the area where they hid within the maintenance tunnels of the ship. Within an hour or two all the thrones were hidden. Max took a spare high Ranking Officers Custom 18th century style Flack coat and body glove armour along with the armoured hat, that fit him and wore it. The Tassles were shiny brass as were the buttons and the wire stitching.

He seated himself in the Captains chair and waited. By the next week the flagship had met them mid way. The modifications were complete the Falatio Rouge Trader Patriarch asked what happened Max convinced him that they were attacked and boarded all the officers and the Captain were killed and only He Maximus Falatio survived, all the Thrones were stolen. The Rouge trader Patriarch Nikolai Falatio the Third had the ship searched and it corroborated Max's story as all the Officers and the Captain was dead and the safe broken into open and empty. He made up the Name as he knew that all the officers were some relation to the rouge trader dynasty. Believing the story Nikolai left him to continue his business, and boarded back onto the Flagship. Soon the 5.7 kilometre long, .7 kilometre abeam ship equipped with 2 port and 2 starboard broadside Titanforge lances , a far more advanced bridge of antiquity, a far more advanced Archeotech modified Jovian plasma drive, Archeo tech double void Sheild, archeo tech life support system and many main Holds, started back on its course to outside the system jumping into the warp.

When the ship left the area Max stated to everyone on the bridge "I Want That Ship."

Minnie now not having a worry and plenty of time started working on something that would concentrate the energy of the sun to roast the corrupted Astates bolt rounds without them exploding. Testing with only a handful at a time.

So after they stocked up on new equipment to sell, he stayed in system to train his voidsmen on how to fight through their set up training regime. He stayed for a couple of years. Minnie's Navigator friend was called Horatio Davega he focused on increasing his willpower to better focus on the Astronomicon the Location of Holy Terra otherwise formerly known as Earth. He took up Minnie's role of keeping the voidsmen improving in Kineasthetics, endurance and fitness, freeing Minnie to start education the young Children of the Voidsmen on all the engineering , chemical, high Gothic language formerly known as English and historical knowledge she has managed to steal and learn over the years. As most people speak low gothic or slang version of english she teaches them High Gothic that she taught herself using a stolen data slate, so they can read copies of the data slates she has stolen over the years, for the sole purpose so that they can at the most basic be able to do their jobs better and at most to come up with inventions to help their cause to get richer.

By now Minnie's corruption purifying invention prototypes only blew up a single full magazine worth of Astates Legionnaire Bolt rounds perfected it and after a few weeks circling round the sun roasting at a low enough temperature all the legionnaire round were corruption free, she even had Time to work out how to reproduce the Legionnaire bolt weapons and Legionnaire bolt rounds. Mike was now armed with a legionnaire bolt pistol that had the Imperium Eagle reinstalled.

Every one of the Former Gangers were now armed with Astates Legionnaire Bolt guns or Legionnaire Bolt Pistols.

Max confident in his voidsmen soldiers abilities leaves the system with extra weapons, ammo, armour and equipment from the hive cities manufactorums and exited the solar system once more to make a trip to the war world.

But this time when they entered the system they were attacked by a fleet of two Raiders one Hazeroth with 1 dorsal weapon and one prow weapon, 1.5 kilometres long and .25 kilometres abeam.

And one Meretech Shrike Raider with one dorsal weapon and one prow weapon, 2 kilometres long and .25 kilometres abeam, known to have aim assisting Cogitators installed at one time.

Max immediately ordered that they board the Meretech Shrike raider at once. Max piloted the ship as fast as it could go and targeted the Hazeroth and turned in such a position that both the port and Prow MacroCannons are aimed at the ship while gunning for the Meretech Shrike and with mike at the macro cannon aiming console both hit in a volley at long range. 4 torpedoes were fired from the Meretech Shrike raider, they only were hit by 1 torpedo due to their anti boarding and torpedo gunners, The MacroCannon was blocked by the void Sheild. The Raider was manoeuvring around the Transport, Mike then Focussed on positioning the transport to first fire it's starboard macro cannon at the ship , then Manoeuvring the ship so that the Port and Prow Macro Cannons hit in a volley damaging the thrusters rendering it immobile. Shortly they reached boarding range of the Meretech while Mike kept blasting the Hazeroth, eventually damaging its thrusters so bad they could barely move. Jo wanted to lead the boarding so Max stayed at the helm with Mike at the weapons console, ordering the Navigator Horatio to lead the second group of highly trained and equipped voidsmen. Once Horatio took to piloting the boarding boat they easily managed to board the Shrike. The well trained voidsmen devastated the pirate voidsmen in half an hour and with Jo and Horatio they killed the Captain who turned out to be the head of a fallen rouge trader dynasty that was a rival to the Falatio dynasty. By Max's orders over the Vox caster he convinced the crew of the Shrike to join him, even the leaders agreed once they heard from Jo that they would get a percentage of the revenue each.

Now armed with a Meteteck Shrike raider backing him up Max piloted the ship to the Hazeroth and with Mike lead two more boarding parties easily taking over the ship.

Again Max convinced the crew and then the remaining leadership with the percentage of profits each.

They then killed all the officers on all ships then started the process of building the training grounds on each, they then stayed a year to train the new voidsmen, and Minnie began setting up schools on the ships for the young children then after selling the weapons vehicles and equipment traveled to the Astates base selling off all the Bolter ammo.

They then split the fleet the Transport would continue to make that same trip and the bulk of the Thrones have to be stored at a designated location just outside HiveCity Alpha, failure to do so will result in death. If the Rouge Trader returns they are to pilot the ship as fast as they can for as long as they can and contact them Via Psyker communication using the Navigator as soon as they spot the Galleon.

All the charted courses through the warp were transferred onto a data slate along with taking the former captains data slate containing confidential and useful information such as planets that the dynasty integrated into the imperium, soldier recruitment planets, and consumer planets as well as other Forge worlds under their control.

The Hazeroth and the Shrike were their ships now in a fleet. The Meretech Shrike Raider was armed with Dorsal Archeotech Plasma accelerated Torpedo launcher bays capable of firing four torpedoes at a time at a greater range than typical torpedo launchers and a prow Mars Macro cannon. The Cogitator assisting in aiming was still installed, it had a bridge of antiquity, an Archeotech modified Jovian Plasma drive, Archeotech life support systems, Archeotech void Sheild that used less power and took less space, equipped with battle servitors(robots using human brains equipped with ranged weapons), murder servitors( robots using human brains and unarmed) and a teleportarium, a teleporter that's an incredibly rare Archeotech device.

Also with a compartmentalised hold that is in multiple hold sections connected via hallways equaling the same carrying capacity as a main hold. It also comes with a warps bane Hull that makes it harder for bad things to happen in the warp

The Hazeroth has a prow weak Thunderstrike Macrocannon and a weak Thunderstrike dorsal Macrocannon, nothing special of note except that it has a compartmentalised hold and an armoured prow for ramming.

Then with the data slates from the Former Falatio Dynasy transport they charted a course to another transport route. The moment they got out of the warp they found a transport just leaving the consumer planet. Quickly they piloted the ships as fast as they could, boarded the vessel and completely took over killing all the officers and the captain convincing the remaining hired leaders to join them instead for the same percentage rate that is always offered, their crews are trained and educated for a year, before they continue on their travels paying the Now Former Gangers, spies are created and the fleet leaves with the bulk of thrones. Next they used the next Dead Fallen Patriarch Rival Rouge Trader Dynasty's writ of Trade to acquire an Overlord Battlecruiser, When they arrived at the Location they found that the Ship was hulked that had its life support systems and many systems and weapons damaged and holed, which were quickly repaired, it was 5.3 kilometres long .8 kilometres abeam with Plasma Hecutor Lance weapons on the Prow, Port and Starboard that can disintegrate parts of ships along with Mars Macro Cannon broadsides on the Remaining port and starboard weapon locations, with a Dorsal Mars Torpedo Launcher that can fire Six torpedoes at a time.

Then in the same battle location they found two cruisers that had many systems damaged and holed so they were quickly repaired. They acquired a Dictator Class Cruiser that specialised in using Fighters and Bombers that was 5.1 kilometres long .5 kilometres abeam, fitted with Sunsear Lances on the Port, Prow and Starboard that had a range of 9 void units, and a Mars Torpedo launcher.

Another cruiser a Lunar Class cruiser that was 5kilometres long and .8 abeam fitted with prow Mars Torpedo Launcher, starboard Sunsear lance and Mars MacroBattery Broadsides, With Port Sunsear Lance and Mars MacroBattry Broadsides.

They also found and repaired six escort Frigates of varying classes, they so added to the fold through boarding actions ten raiders, all travelling in one fleet attacking and assimilating many transports to work for them under the now Dead Rival Rouge Trader Dynasty's Name, Spardarius.

In the official offices his name is Maximus Spadarius the Heir to the fallen Patriarch of the Spadarius Dynasty now Head of the Rouge Trader Dynasty it worked so well because the actual heir was also killed when they killed the Captain of the Hazeroth raider.

During their Journeys they stealthed into many forge worlds controlled by the Falatio Dynasty and created dissent in the populations creating chaos, then when they were weak they attacked emptying the crews from all the void ships leaving only a skeleton crew and with precision strikes with their smaller man power destabilised the ruling class so much that they were easily able to take over. They started with their Homeworld Felanox, then once it was under their control they took servitors and Battle servitors and Minnie modified their programming so that they would tabulate the Thrones Collected the travel time of the charted courses for each ship to determine whether any captains were holding any Thrones Back, also the throne storage Facility where the Bomber was still located (a large hole in the ground with a cover, amongst a clearing in the Forrest) was filled in with The Bomber quickly sold and A new Facility built in another section of the Planet, transferring all the Thrones after tabulation they found so far no transport had held back any Thrones, probably due to the spies amongst their ranks. The servitors and Battle servitors would meet them at a specific location far from the new facility, with a Servitor Driving a large Truck accountant Servitors Tabulating and Facial Recognition Servitors checking for lies in both body language and facial movements, The Battle servitors weapons and combat functions would only be enabled if there is a Tabulation error, A Lying incident, if the Leaders are not present, if the Leaders have hostile intention signs on their face and Body, they also would activate weapons and Combat systems if someone tries to tamper with their Programming or the other servitors programming and they would target who ever was there then after all were dead, all combat functions and weapons would shut down. The Servitors would then load the truck with all the Thrones. As the traveled to Falatio Controlled Planets they flled their ranks of soldiers from worlds that were predominantly used for getting soldiers.

In each of the worlds they take over Minnie organises areas for education, Jo, Mike, Max and Horatio organises areas for military training. Max also sleeps with smart and intelligent Women on Both the Transports and The Planets to build up his familial Dynasty to create Future Officers And Captains for his transports and Governors to Control each of his Planets and Places The Women on the Planets in Control of The Governors Position, until they die and hand over the Position to His Children.

They have the soldiers that they picked up trained everyday using their methods started by Max, and they continued training as they went from planet to planet taking them over, even taking over the occasional Pirate Frigate and Raider, setting up training education and spies and sending them out to bring more transports into the fold of Throne generation for the Now Flourishing Spardarius Rouge Trader Dynasty.

They then sneaked into the next system that was often used by the Falatio Dynasy as a soldier recruitment planet. Then discreetly they landed the raiders, they mixed in with the soldiers on the planet and sowed dissent towards the Falatio dynasty. Due to the eye watering losses that occurred when ever they went to war, It worked amazingly as then The Spadarius Rouge trader Dynasty came at the precise perfect time, with voidsmen more capable than their own soldiers well experienced and well trained. They took over quickly. Max, Jo, Mike, Minnie and Horatio all got to work organising training and education areas all over the planet. Then they got a psycher call from the very first transport they took over. They left the solar system into the warp. Arriving at Felanox which was now under the Spardarius Dynasty, as were a decent chunk of the Falatio controlled planets.

Max was now wearing a custom 18th century style flack coat with body glove armour including the gold Tassles and armoured tri point hat with body glove and flack armour stitched in as normal wear however for this upcoming battle wore power armour. Minnie was now wearing power armour, as was Jo and Mike. Horatio was wearing an armoured robe with an armoured hood, similar to Max .

On entry to the system a single Conquest Star galleon was there with a Fleet of five cruisers chasing the transport and mostly missing with whatever long range lances they have, the Transport had done a good job of surviving the fleet keeping out of the range of most weapons for over 700 days straight, by pretending to be a hulked vessel.

The Frigates were ordered to split the cruisers formation up and force them to chase with either a cruiser or a battle ship helping them out or raiders helping them out. Once the cruisers were split up the ships were immediately boarded. Leaving the Galleon alone with The Mereteck Shrike Raider, The Overlord battle ship and the remaining Raiders.

The raiders charged forth getting hit sometimes by lances some got their thrusters destroyed or damaged some got their life support damaged, the ones that made it through and immediately boarded. The Shrike Raider Led the Charge and was the first to board followed by the other unaffected raiders. They made a dint in the population but their was just so many people so many targets out numbering them ten to one even when the other raiders bordered. Then finally the battle ship came to the rescue and the reinforcements ensured the Former Gangers advantage.

Soon the Conquest Star Galleon was captured they punched a hole in the Defenses straight to the bridge the Rouge Trader Patriarch was on the bridge in Power armour and an archeo tech las pistol with a Tech priest in power armour and storm bolt pistol also with a flamer ( a storm bolt weapon is two bolt weapons side by side on the same gun that fire simultaneously), an Arch militant in power armour and a storm heavy Bolter and a bolt pistol, a Psycker in power armour with a warp sword, chain sword and a Bolt pistol, a Navigator in power armour with a storm bolt gun and a bolt pistol.

Max, Mike, Jo, Minnie and Horatio stormed into the bridge and began firing with their Legionnaire Bolters and Legionnaire Bolt Pistols firing Legionnaire Bolt Rounds.

Jo opened fire on the Captain with her Legionnaire Bolt pistol hitting him in the chest, the round easily pierced the power armour and the Explosion was so great only the Captains legs remained intact the arch militant and the Psycher were caught up in the explosion and heavily damaged from the shrapnel.

With the Captain blown to pieces by Jo, Max did his thing convincing them with a percentage of this ships transport percentage, half of the leaders did not agree to the terms only the Arch Militant and the Tech priest agreed the Navigator and the Psyker fought to the death and were subsequently shot by Horatios Legionnaire Bolter and Max's Legionnaire Bolt Pistol. They then added the Conquest Star Galleon to the Fleet. They then started attacking patrol fleets of the Falatio dynasty taking them over setting up training education and spies before sending them off to take over Falatio transports and take over Falatio controlled Planets using their methods of Dissent, Deception and Subterfuge with usually an easy victory.

The Galleon had a librarium installed, consulting the Librarium they looked to acquire transport hulks with Salvage systems already installed, transport hulks without and salvage system components. Over a year of consulting the librarium and looking for transports with Salvage systems he found a hundred hulked Jericho transports and he also found salvage systems or had his forge worlds construct them. He then used his fleet of transports that he had doing deliveries to the imperium to deliver all the materials needed and essential void ship components from his mining worlds and forge worlds to get the transports fully functional and fully armed with Mars Macro Cannons. Once they were fully functional and warp Capable he then used his new transports to deliver enough Power armour for the all the soldiers and extra Flamers Just in the case of Orks. Once they were all equipped he then contacted his spies and Captains to see if any Space Hulks had appeared in the Segmentum. Indeed there was one, so with a massive fleet with a hundred Transports, 12 Raiders, 6 Frigates, 7 Cruisers, 1 Battlecruiser and 1 Conquest Class Star Galleon and all his Soldiers protected in Power armour they warped to the Hulks Location. The Transports began cutting into the Hulk separating huge numbers of Raiders and Frigates, many Cruisers and a few BattleCruisers, 1 Gloriana Class Battleship that was 20 kilometres long and 2 kilometres abeam with 3 port and 3 starboard broadside Archeotech weapons, 2 Prow Archeotech weapons with one being a Jovian Nova cannon that can fire vortex rounds that generate rifts in the warp that can tear ships in half and 2 Dorsal Archeotech weapons 1 being a Plasma accelerated Torpedo Launcher that has 6 remaining torpedoes with Seeking guidance system.

The Seeking guidance system torpedoes were taken to be studied by Minnie.

1 Dark age Technology Transport ship of unknown Class 20 kilometres long 4 Kilometres abeam with 2 starboard Archeotech weapons, 2 Port Archeo tech weapons and 2 Dorsal Archeotech weapons.

After separating the ships they began clearing out the Daemon infested ships with all the soldiers in Power armour. Eventually all the ships were separated and cleansed fast enough that the Space Hulk didn't deserve the name, and couldn't disappear into the warp any more with all its ships separated. With an insane number of ships in that location he warped to some of his Planets in his Rouge Trader Dynasty governed worlds and began recruiting Voidsmen for all the new ships.

Then getting the Salvage Transport fleet to deliver parts to repair the ships and A Gellar Feild Generator for the Dark Age ship. Once the ships were made fully functional and fully repaired with the Dark age ship being installed with a Gellar Feild and a Warpsbane Hull the New ships and crews were set up with education and training as always then sent to take over the remaining Rouge Traders in the Segmentum.

Then using his forge worlds he equips hundreds of raiders and Frigates and installs the best imperium systems in them as well as the best Imperium weapons systems. He gets his Forge worlds in the Imperium to modify millions of servitors to fill the position of any human crew so that they can travel in his Empire and collect his Thrones directly from the Transports in his Rouge Trader Dynasty control.

Max, Jo, Minnie, Mike and Horatio all take many regenerative treatments to stay young and at their peak as they traverse the stars.

They took over Rouge trader dynasty planets and transports in swathes with the added ships separated from the Space hulk separating into separate fleets defeating patrolling Rouge trader fleets then adding surviving ships and crews to the fleet before taking over the Rouge traders transports and Governed planets. They did this for a hundred years before completely governing the Segmentum.

After having control in the Calixis Segmentum, the Spardarius Rouge trader Dynasty started taking over the Koronus Segmentum in the same fashion setting up spies everywhere. Then upon getting news of a space hulk of the Segmentum The Transport fleet and the main fleet headed out to the Hulk separating all the ships and clearing out the daemons on board.

After taking over the Ships, they were repaired and added to the fleet to Bring the Segmentum under governorship and control of all Transports not controlled directly by the Imperium or Mechanicum.

This occurred until eventually every hundred years a Segmentum was under Control of Spardarius Governors and Had control over most Transport shipments, along with a Space hulk being separated into a new fleet of ships with every appearance.

In The Calixis Segmentum the Ecclesiarchy tried getting members but failed due to everyone only believing in science. Seeing as they saw this as Heresy to believe in nothing but science they called the Inquisition to rid this planet of its Heretical inhabitants. The Inquisitior that responded took the Eccliesiarchy Bishop at his word and used his fleet to begin attacking the Planet below. The World was taken completely by surprise as they were assaulted, the Local Spardarius Governor tried to convince the Inquisitor via Vox that they did nothing wrong selling Tithes of troops and equipment to the Imperium on a regular basis. The Inquisitor not having any of it Continued the assualt. The Local Forces fought fiercely defending their home world to their last breath surprisingly exhausting the Numbers of Inquisitorial troops sent. They won the war via orbital bombardment. With the planet defeated and Governor dead The Inquisitor began looking through sections of the Planet, after a thorough search using his voidsmen, he found not one single shrine to the chaos gods or any religion for that matter. He had been made a fool of. Angry he entered his ship and Ordered the Destruction of the Ecclesiarchial fleet. Not wanting any evidence of his blunder He ordered an extermination of the Planets population. He also sent word to all Inquisitors to search for Heresy within the Ecclesiarchy. Before leaving the destroyed world.

Also in all Segmentums worlds that his Dynasty Governed technology improved getting closer to Archeotech level, easy to construct ships were being designed based on the Lunar class Cruiser, either reducing the scale for Raiders, Frigates and transports or Increasing the Scale for Battle Cruisers that were called the Solar class Battle cruiser and were only 100 metres abeam wider than the Lunar cruisers. Unfortunately all these increases in Technology attracted the ire of the Mechanicum empire who kidnapped these geniuses and inventors transporting them to Mars, charging them with Technological Heresy and supposedly executed them for their supposed crimes, in any case they were never seen or heard from again.

The New Battleship designs were surprisingly not confiscated by the Mechanicum, instead were allowed to spread across Segmentums. Although the other Inventions and improvements were confiscated, this meant that The Imperium would remain stagnant in its technological development as people became to afraid to invent, instead people only used their knowledge to do their jobs better.

Finally after a Millennium every single Segmentum was Under The Spardarius Rouge Trader Dynasy.

Then Max wanted to add a teleportarium to his Flagship as he had Murder Servitors and Battle servitors installed on his new Flagship, A Repulsive Grand Cruiser with many Main holds That had its Archeotech defective Warp engine removed and instead installed with a non defective Warp engine, so he searched and found a location for one, he charted a course to the location. When they arrive at the location where the teleportarium was located they found themselves in a space battle taking place between many xeno (alien) vessels cruiser sized, constructed from many ships imperium, Eldar(Space Elf), Ork, and an unknown xeno ship, along side with many Frigate sized vessels of the unknown xeno race ship fighting against many Cruisers and many more Iconoclast Raiders (Easy to build Small ships usually made by Heretics, who are people who worship Chaos, Multiple Entities fuled by emotions by mostly humans and Many Dead Eldar. Chaos entities inflict deformities on its worshipers that grant power and wear down morality). Also in the Background a heavily Damaged Repulsive Grand Cruiser that was hulked and only partially stripped for parts. This Grand Cruiser is 7.4 kilometres long and 1.5 kilometres Abeam with two Port weapons, Two Starboard weapons, 1 prow weapon and 1 dorsal weapon.

The fleet immediately started silent running turning off nonessential systems to prevent attracting attention. The fleet split up and spread them selves to the edge of the battle Feild ready to board and decimate the Xenos crew or the heretic crew watching the fight, waiting to pick off any ships that try to escape.

Soon many Xenos frigates and heretic Iconoclasts started escaping and the frigates and Raiders made their way to intercept and board them quickly taking over and wiping out most of the Xenos crew by force, however the Iconoclasts had at least ten Heretic space marines on board. The soldiers and the voidsmen all left their home ships and poured into the iconoclasts wiping out swathes of heretic crew and destroying or damaging all boats creating empty hallways that were turned into traps for the Space Marines as they were showered in grenades or walked through booby trapped hallways with mines, Completely wiping out any sign of heretic life.

With the entire battle Feild alert to a new enemy the Spardarius fleet stayed hidden only attacking fleeing heavily damaged vessels.

Then Finally the remaining Heretic ships hulked the Last Xeno ship. And the Spardarius fleet surrounded the Cruisers and the surviving Iconoclast Raiders and they began boarding as soon as they were in range emptying the entire crew into the heretic ship always ensuring that the Heretics can't launch boats to the ships by damaging or destroying them first.

Soon every ship was wiped clean of Heretic life using ambushes and booby traps. Many soldiers and Voidsmen in flak armour lost their lives to the Space marines but that was such a shock to Max, he had never seen a Space Marine up close, but they were horrific they just plowed through well trained soldiers like they were not even there, He wanted some of his own to add to his growing Military.

He asked Minnie about them and she had information on data slate that she stole from the Rouge Trader Family living on Felnox when she was young. She looked up the info and told him that each of them have a progenitor organ that is capable of producing two of every Astates organ implant, that is retrieved upon death and that there were these new Primaris Space marines as well.

Minnie then Made Many Corruption Solar Purifiers and installed them on the ships of the fleet so that they could purify all the Legionnaire Power Armour, weapons and Equipment.

The heretic Cruisers were charted in their drifting direction so as for the prow to be modified so that it won't attract daemons as it travels in the warp. The fleet ships were repaired while the Xenos ships were searched for stripped parts from the Grand Cruiser as were all the Heretic Ships. The Surviving Xeno from all the ships were imprisoned on all the heretic ships so their language can be learnt to use for learning of their technology and how it functions.

The Xeno ship cruisers after they were thoroughly searched were fired upon to completely hulk and destroy the Ork Vessel as well as to disconnect it from the rest of the ship. The unknown Xenos vessels were all charted on their drift course, for their technology to be studied.

They left half of the crew from each ship to fully man all the heretic Cruisers and the rest of half the entire fleet on the Iconoclast Raiders to protect the Repulsive Grand Cruiser with half of all the Tech priests in the fleets placed on the Grand Cruiser to repair it as much as they can with what parts were found.

Max Then had the Teleportarium removed and installed into the Flagship Cruiser and when they found that the Plasma drive was still running and Supplying power, had the Grand Cruiser start to be repaired.

Minnie then put all the naked dead heretic space Marines using servitors to move them into fridges, she and the tech priests built to preserve their bodies until they learn how to make the organ implants from the Progenitor Organ.

Max Confident now that he had total control of the Imperiums transport decided he wanted an Empire, especially after he got word from a Transport Captain when he arrived at the exterminated planet, and what was happening with the Mechanicum arrests. He had many hundreds of Librariums in his fleets across Segmentums each containing many thousands of human colonised worlds each. Knowing the Might of the Imperium and that every ship navigation computer that charted courses were linked to all other Navigational computers in the Imperium. Max had Minnie design a separate navigational computer, he also consulted all his Librariums to find thousands of ships that he then repaired their hulks removing the linked Navigational computer, installing the Separate Navigational computer.

Getting in a new Repulsive Grand cruiser as new Flag ship for the Empire, he split his crew in half. So half the crew transferred to his new fleet of ships, while the other half remained on the Linked Navigation ships. The heretic ships were also modified to not link to the Imperium but the navigational computer was still replaced, the hulls were modified so they would not attract daemons.

Consulting every single Librarium on every single ship they found so many worlds and created a encyclopaedia with their names and locations.

The Fleet armed with the Encyclopedia separated into fleets going to as many worlds as possible.

The worlds Max personally traveled to were mostly medieval, Feudal with ancient Titans 100 metre tall war machines piloted by Nobles and no understanding beyond repair with other technologies being medieval.

Minnie set up Educational areas to educate the population on the fundamentals of electronics and everything she has learnt. Max set up Military training areas to Train the population they same way they trained themselves. Horatio set up Psycher training areas to train the Psycher population how to be navigators and Communication Psychers.

There was one world that had survived relatively unaffected, they were self sufficient before the many tragedies due to a pragmatic leadership and even though they lost all their ships they built smaller purpose built ships to mine the surrounding moons and planets.

They had Psychers but due to pragmatism were held in space stations to learn how to control the powers, learning that willpower was the key. The Leadership had forced the Psychers to train harshly to increase their willpower. Their willpower was as good as registered Psychers.

The planets Psychers were trained to be Navigators by Navigators while and some were trained by Registered Psychers for Communication over vast distances. New planets found in the Librariums that were missed in the initial search were communicated via psychic communication. Areas were set up to train the Psychers when they left along with the military training areas and education areas set up.

Horatio interested in Psycher abilities took the opportunity to learn how to do a gout of Flame, one of the basic Psycher attacks. After mastering it he began Experimenting with the gout of Flame to purge Corruption from items with out destroying them.

Upon traveling to a colony on a heretic Chaos filled world, they begun waging a war subjugating the world with many Losses due to the heretic Space marine presence.

On the world Horatio tested his Newly made ability destroying hundreds of heretic guardsmans body's and equipment before finally mastering the new ability.

Horatio used his Newly named ability

Flames of Purification to try and purify the Heretic Marines Corpses. It seemed to work as all their deformities burned off leaving only normal dead space marines, and he couldn't feel the slightest trace of corruption.

Then after getting a Psycher Communication Horatio informed Minnie that the Alien tech had been worked out and understood.

Travelling to the Xeno ship hulks Minnie Learnt the New technology before warping back to the Fleet.

The Xeno ship Technology allowed them to modify all the Sheilds so that any ship could have Multiple void Sheilds, even the Smallest ships the Raiders. The Xenos ships were built with whole ships connected via connecting hallway like hulls, so after transporting fresh crew to the Xenos ship they used the Imperium Vessels to travel and replaced the charting device with the secret charting device so the Maximus Empire could use them as transports.

Minnie now had mastered the Torpedo Guidance system so now all ships that use Torpedoes now have a seeking Guidance system installed.

With a year total travelling in the warp bringing in new worlds into his new empire, Max decided to personally check his hidden empire by first visiting planets that he personally brought into the empire at the start.

They all were growing fast in technology making leaps and bounds, even medieval or Primitive worlds by the time they visited them again they were all producing equipment equal to the even had built their own space docks and had started building Raiders, Frigates, Transports, Cruisers and Battlecruisers and had been sending them out to bring in even more worlds. One World that had been medieval at the time of the first visit had a ship building genius that designed several Easy to construct ships like a raider, a frigate, Transports, a Cruiser and a Battle cruiser. With The Battle cruiser based on the cruiser only one hundred metres wider to accommodate the extensive power relays to power the added Dorsal weapon mount. Every Planet in the empire at the time were contacted and the designs have been rented and shared.

These worlds with in a year of Max's second arrival were able to produce the space marine organ implants from the progenitor organ and start implanting them into the perfect child candidates, they were even able to develop a process, where once the Space Marine have all the implants necessary and have lived long enough for the progenitor to grow two of every implanted organ, they can extract the organ without killing the Space Marine so as to increase numbers even Further.

Max ordered any new ships to be given to his Legion of Asates to bring the unknown worlds into his own empire. All these ships all had the secret charting device that stayed seperate from the Imperium.

With his Legion of Astates trained and educated from birth like everyone else with the same harsh training they naturally had a higher willpower to not succumb to the influence of chaos, even though the corruption was removed there was still a chance. They grew in large numbers and brought many, many worlds into the Maximus Empire, including a system with two planets of the exact same size in the same orbit around the sun exactly 180 degrees from each other in the Goldylocks zone for life where humans have survived relatively well from the dark age of technology but have given up on building Ships with warp engines as they lost too many in the destruction and chaos in the warp caused by the Eldar(space elves) who murder fucked in so many indescribable and incomprehensible ways they created a chaos god that unleashed daemons into the warp and subsequently almost wiped out the entirety of the Eldar in one day.

They had 2 Dark age Battle ships 20 Kilometres Long 2 kilometre abeam with four Dorsal Archeotech weapons, three starboard and three port Archeotech weapons with Three Prow Archeotech Weapons with one being a Jovian Nova Cannon. The Battle ships were still armed but internally converted into transports and Mining Vessels.

There were also 2 Dark age 20 kilometre long 4 kilometre abeam Transports that were the same unknown class of transport with five dark age smaller Transports that were 5 kilometres long and .5 km abeam with two prow Archeotech weapons, Two starboard archeotech weapons and two port Archeotech weapons. All Dark Age ships were later installed with Warps bane hulls and Gellar fields.

Max brought the system into his empire and they surprisingly had warriors similar to space marines in every way called Spartans except instead of Legionnaire bolters they use special model Lasguns that are just as devastating and penetrating.

Their planetary defense forces were all armed with Las guns that have great penetration similar to hot shot lasgun power packs except without the large Back pack it looks like a standard Lasgun. Their Las pistols are also similar to hotshot power pack pistol penetration except they look like standard laspistols. Even the basic Flack armour and Custom

Flack coats equals normal carapace armour rating without the weight.

In fact all the armour is better than standard imperial armour. The designs are put on data slates for his empires billion or so planets that have factories to start producing these new designs on mass.

The Battleship and Transport designs were shared and rented between all worlds currently in the empire.

By now the Number of worlds in the fold of the empire were exponential from when Max First brought them into his empire as every year ships brought in a thousand words, all those worlds over one or two hundred years with their education were able to produce fleets of raiders and frigates to bring a thousand worlds a year per planet with shipyards. Effectively exponentially growing the empire every one or two hundred years as each new planet built shipyards and ships.

Minnie started modifying the Spardarius rouge trader fleet ships systems using all her knowledge producing Archeotech levels of modifications on all the fleets systems. So after a few years of travelling through the warp doing most of the modifications either on planet or on the way to a planet from the edge of a system and traveling to the edge of the system to enter the warp. She does these archeo tech level modifications on every ship in the fleet so that all the following systems are archeotech level, life support, Plasma drives, bridge, multiple void Sheilds( for raiders, Frigates and 2km transports, triple void Sheilds for Battleships, cruisers And 5km long transports), also adding a warps bane hull.

Max stops his Legion from further multiplying rapidly knowing now he has untainted Spartan soldiers that do the same job. But he does so deceptively by implanting new Space Marines with a modified Progenitor organ that only produces one of each organ implant, and as the need for rapid space marine Production has receded the process to Take the progenitor organ out of a live space marine has stopped due to lack of need as there are many thousands of marines. Rapidly The Spartan Space marines grow to the same number as the Spardarius Space Marines doubling the amount of super soldiers. As the Spartans grow in number the Space Marines and Spartans are put together in the same teams to built trust and comraderie between the two types of super soldiers. Then he changes his mind When Horatio tells him of what he did with his New Psycher Ability The Flames of Purification and all new Spardarius Space marines are implanted with the normal Progenitor organ. So they can slowly grow in number as they die in battle.

Soon most planets advanced to the point to produce Archeotech level ship systems and every single ship was fully out fitted with Archeotech weapons, Archeotech systems including a newly developed Quad Void Sheild for Grand Cruisers and other more massive vessels using the Xeno technological developments.

. They send ships to search for as many librariums as possible using the librariums in their possession to search those librariums for the purpose of preventing others finding worlds in their empire. Within 500 years out of the warp the empire finds all the colony settlements of man becoming many times larger than the imperium of man, but unlike the imperium of man the Maximus Empire continues to improve with technology while learning from the mistakes of the past. Despite Max's best efforts at keeping his huge empire hidden eventually a surviving individual Rouge Trader Found one of his hidden empire planets in his Librarium, but The Maximus Empire had already assimilated all the colonies of man in the stars in all Segmentums by the time the Rouge trader reported the Empire, so they were far larger than the Imperium of man in its entirety and Manpower, plus they also had far more advanced Archeotech Technology as standard.

With the Maximus Empire as large as it could ever get. Max Focused on increasing his Fleet by finding ships and repairing them Before upgrading all their systems to Archeotech level systems and weapons.

The Imperium not knowing the full power of this empire Threw its Inquisitorial fleet, a part of the Naval Fleet with Imperial guard on board and part of The Ecclesiarchy fleet at that one planet, taking the chartered route of 500 hundred years out side the warp to travel to the planet charting that course. Maxes Spies informed him of the incoming threat so when the fleet arrived they were ready. The fleet was crushed when they arrived facing The Empires full Archeotech level Calixis Segmentum Fleet of 100 raiders and frigates, 10 cruisers, 10 BattleCruisers 5 Battleships (all built the same size as the Dark age Battleship with the same weapon setup) and 5 Repulsive Grand Cruisers almost all were built in shipyards with in the Empire with the sole Exception of the DarkAge Battleship. The fleet did not even get to escape instead all the surviving ships and crews were boarded and taken over.

Despite this attack Max did not stop any of his transport shipments within the Imperium of Man so as not to raise suspicion. Instead he did nothing.

The remaining Imperial Navy fleet with Imperial Guard on board, Remaining Inquisitorial fleet, Remaining Ecclesiarchy fleet and Imperial Space marine Chapters from within the Segmentum attacked only to be crushed by the Maximus Empire's Calixis Segmentum fleet with Space Marine and Spartan Legion on board, the Imperium Lost all its fleets in the Segmentum (large area in space covering at least a hundred Known worlds.) and all of the Space Marine Chapters sent.

Max Discovered the Power of The Primaris Space marines so to match the Primaris Space Marines Each and every space Marine was modified with Mechanical augments that make them better than Primaris marines and sub dermal armour making them so powerful they were unknowingly made as strong as the Thunder warriors, who were the most powerful super warriors made by man.

The High Lords of Terra and The Ultra Marine Primarch were informed still not aware of the true strength of the Multi Segmentum Empire were forced to make a choice to expend all its resources and Hope that every single soldier be it guardsmen or Space Marine can kill ten men of their like before they die to even have a slight chance at winning only to decimate both Empires and be worse than they are now in technology, the largest Ships and Ancient War machines that can't be replaced would be destroyed, or follow what the Emperor of Man did with Mars and Allow the Maximus Empire to exist and form an Alliance with them, further increasing the Might Of Mankind.

While they were deliberating and debating their took a hundred years of deliberation but it did not matter as The Spardarius Rouge Trader Dynasty Headed By Maximus Spardarius had a Monopoly on all the transport shipments in the Imperium of Man giving them total control over the supply of weapons,ammunition, Equipment, vehicles and most of all manpower and the masses of Humanity.

Within one Millennium of The Spardarius Rouge Trader Dynasties rise most of the worlds in the Imperium were well educated and well Trained and due to this The Ecclesiarchy The Church of The Emperor of man Started Loosing its grip on power as people trusted more in knowledge, raw steel and skill than faith. They maintained their fleets of Ships and Warriors but now they were just another force of the Imperium as fewer and fewer people joined them only The Bishops that Captained the ships and other High Ranking Members who get Rejuvenation treatments were the only other true members. Members also were The Voidsmen that grew up with their teachings in the ships and The planets of the certain Space Marine chapters, Planets that are recruitment planets for the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Navy.

When the High Lords of Terra Decided to attack the new Empire Max cut off all supply lines. The war was short and swift with no extra weapons or reinforcements of men and ammunition for the Space marine bolters and Bolter based weapon armaments. The war grinded to a swift stop with the Marines forced to fight hand to hand against special Legionnaire level Lasguns from a hundred metres away, they were massacred and forced to surrender. The Old Tactic of Throwing masses of men at the enemy failed as fewer reinforcements were able to arrive as Maximus now controlled the entirety of the Imperium of Man movements of transport. The reinforcements the Navy and Imperial guard were able to acquire could only fit on Cruisers and Light Cruisers that were forced to become Transports. The same was with The Inquisition and The Ecclesiarchy Though Max Had Control of all the planets and forge worlds transports owned by Rouge Traders , the Imperial Guard, The Navy and Space Marine Chapters had their own planets that they controlled to produce ammunition, weapons, armour, equipment and Recruits. Mechanicum of Mars supplied as many weapons equipment and ammunition as it could from all its manufactorums, cruisers, transports on all the Forge world systems that it created that are not under rouge trader control. Though it was not enough and the war grinded to a halt with the Imperium forced to surrender. With the War over, Max now had Control of the Imperium of Man. He started Taxing the Imperium, getting paid in Taxes from everywhere, he also ensures that no Imperium loyalist can start a rebellion by finding every single ship that were hulked and drifting out there, rebuilding them and adding them into his Empire.

Max also used his spies to find any spark of rebellion and he would use his resources to quickly crush them.

Max then used his spies to find all the arrested Inventors from his Governed worlds, finding them all inventing on Mars each having taken many Forced rejuvenation treatments and forced to Repair all corrupted Standard Template Construct Data-slate blue prints so that The Mechanicum can insert them into Standard Template Constructor Automated Factories to produce archeo tech designs of weapons, vehicles, equipment and Ship systems.

Max uses his spies to create Havoc on all Mechanicum forge worlds especially Mars to destabilise the Leadership and have them fighting their own people while Max sends in A fleet to take over the weakened leadership. With them taking over relatively easily the captured Geniuses are freed to do as they wish.

The Inquisitor that exterminated his Governor Familial Relation and Governed world, was eventually found and held to account with public execution on the Charge of Heresy and Treason. The Remaining inquisitors from all Segmentums couldn't believe it one of there own was held to account for his actions.

They all linked up from all Ordos of Inquisition, from Ordo of Xenos, Ordo of Traitors to Ordo of Religion heresy. They massed their fleets to fight for their right to be the highest authority besides the Emperor of man himself.

They were utterly crushed. The inquisitors,loyal men, loyal space marines and ships were Exterminated leaving no soul alive, destroying their ships to beyond hulks to tiny shards of metal.

Instead he formed an Intelligence Organisation made up of spies to find any form of traitorous or truly Heretical worship, along with an independent organisation that hold the Intelligence organisation to account.

The Maximus Empire Intelligence Organisation were curious why the Ultramarine chapters were so successful in their missions and tasks, even finding all lost artifacts of other Space marine legions turned chapters that have been searching for Millenniums, yet the Ultramarines find them one after another in short order.

In Multiple Investigations The MEIO found that The Ultra Marine chapters and all worlds that still worshiped the old religion through their fervent worship of the Emperor had created a new Chaos Entity within the Warp called The Emperor, that granted the space marine chapters that worshiped it with Gifts and Abilities similar to other Chaos entities but without obvious deformities, instead the deformities were, that they had more powerful muscles than natural for space marines and higher pain resistance than natural.

The Organisation could not determine whether The Entity was A Psychically reinforced Spirit of The Emperor responsible for the creation of The Psychic barrier and repair of the barrier in the warp and The Astronomicon beacon or A New Entity entirely. Uncertain they continued watching the chapters actions suspiciously.

The Unified Maximus Empire grows to advance in technology eventually starting a new Golden Age of un impeded technological progress learning from the Technological mistakes of the past by never creating sentient artificial intelligence, only creating machine intelligence up to the point to speed up complicated calculations that would take humans generations to answer, as well as Automated Turrets to solely target torpedoes, as well as to aid in aiming weapons, with humans making the final decision to pull the trigger with either of the two systems.

Chaos space marine attacks are still a threat as they occasionally breach the Warp and attack ships or try to unsuccessfully convert planets to Chaos worship, before the local Population fights them back using Archeotech level weaponry and armour. Any aggressive spacefaring Xenos race also remain a threat.

Annoying Pirates still are an annoyance.