Chapter 12: Two Kings Meet
As The Eye of the Imperium started to fly over the Eastern continent The Greed King got up from his bed and look in wonder at the lights of the enormous cities that now covered it. The last time he was in the area the countries were still really large cities of people that banded together. He heard his door open behind him and a voice.
"Quite the site a few years ago people were starving in the streets now we are having problems with overpopulation, cities pop up and overflow in six months" Martellus said.
"From the lights I can tell you are now using a type of electricity and some type of combustion engines, do you have problems with pollution?" The Greed King asked.
"Well I do not know about those things the Machine Spirits are controlled by the Adeptus Mechanicus." Martellus said with a smile.
"Machine Spirits? Adeptus Mechanicus? I see he is giving you the benefits of technology while keeping you in ignorance of superstition it is a classical move." The Greed King said while his was stroking his chin.
"I know not of what you speak but I know you might think him a megalomaniac taking a name like God Emperor and creating the Imperium but he is a great being. He untied all lands made it so all the different types of beings of this world get along. War and hunger are no longer issues and he gave rights for all beings. The world is a better place because of him, he gives all enemies the chance to repent." Martellus said.
"Warmaster you will not convert me to his cause, our relationship is purely transactional I shall receive what I want and he shall receive what he wants, that is it." The Greed King replied.
"Really? I thought you being from the domain of the Gods would like to be in like company." Martellus said.
"Domain of the Gods? Huh, what if I told you everything you believe is not true?" The Greed King asked.
"Sorry, I must apologize but this conversation can go no further as it is going into heresy which I am sworn to protect the Imperium from." Martellus said as he lifted his hands apologetically.
The Greed King smiled and said, "A Theocratic Dictatorship, I see then I shall trouble you no more with this idle forbidden talk. Tell me then something you do know, when will we arrive at the capital?"
"Ah Yes! That is why I originally came but I often get caught up in the glory of The will drop off your vessel in Traverser, for the Adeptus Mechanicus to go over your findings on the vessel and then he will go to the capital. By the time we get there they shall be able to relay their findings to the Emperor before you take audience." Martellus said.
"Wow I am amazed that your technology is that far advanced enough for your scientists to go through my work on the FTL drive. I see these ships run on some sort of standard propulsion, and they also seem space worthy by the construction." The Greed King said.
Martellus eyes glazed over and called Technu on the vox, "Technu the greed King wishes to discuss the FTL drive to do have time?"
Technu who had his face buried in a compad that contained the FLT drive schematics sat up and started to run in the Warmasters direction before he replied, "Yes I will be there soon."
"He is one of our best and brightest he can answer your questions." Martellus said.
"Do you wish to know why your Emperor wants my information so much? The Greed King asked.
"If it is permitted, I would like to try" He replied.
"Faster than light travel, it allows your ships to move an enormous amount of space in a small amount of time. He said as he smiled.
"Oh, I see that must be the last piece we need to conquer the stars!" Martellus said with a grin.
"What? We don't even know if this is reality yet, the system could crash from a data trying to exit the simulation! This ship could just be random data! No, this cannot do." The Greed King exclaimed.
"Be at ease Sir these are all issues the Emperor has figured out." A strange metallic voice said.
The Greed King looked over to see the Technomancer and leader of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Technu.
"Really, I shall be interested to see how he had made such deductions, have you sent ships into the atmosphere?" He asked
"In a manner of speaking the Emperor is here and everywhere he is the Omnissiah!" Technu exclaimed!
Great another religious nutcase The Greed King thought.
"I would like to speak with you about the FTL drive but we have reached Traverser and need your assistance in unloading the vessel, the counter thruster are online but I would need you to show me the controls." Technus asked.
"Certainly!" He answered as they both started to walk toward the hold together discussing the intricacies of fiber optic displays. Martellus simply shook his head and contacted the shipyard to make sure they were ready for their arrival.
The ship was placed in a highly secure area in the Fortress Monastery and then The Eye of the Imperium dropped of the adventures and headed toward to the Capital for the first time in centuries two players were about to meet. The Greed King had no idea what he had gotten himself into, nor did anyone else.
The flagship approached the Capital and extended the ramp down on top of the royal castle. A company of Space wolves and Martellus walked down the ramp surrounding the Greed King who did not know they were they for his protection or if he was now a prisoner. They escorted him all the way down to the entrance of the throne room where they took up post. Martellus and the Greed King were met by Demiurge, who in his fashion smiled and walked up to them both.
"Martellus it is always a pleasure, would you come and find me after this we have business, and you must be the other Supreme Being that our God Emperor has found how are you my name is Demiurge, I am one of the Guardians of this world." He smiled and did not forget to bow, hatred and malice was seething from him. If Demiurge had it his way they would have killed him they day the Emperor found him, all he could think of when he heard of a Supreme Being not from the Guild was one of those who must have attacked Nazarick so long ago.
"Ah, you are very bright and from your attire I can tell you must be an NPC correct?" The Greed King asked.
Demiurge smiled twitched, he found it very offensive as a creation of the Supreme Being to be called a mere NPC. He might have been fine with it 23 years ago when he first came to these lands but not after he was apart of the ruling this world for so long. Staying to the script that the Emperor gave him he did not deviate although he wanted to.
"If you step right this way Sir, you will have your private audience with our Emperor, no one is allowed in so I will open the doors and you can proceed." Demiurge said as he opened the door and motioned him in.
The Greed King walked into the pure gold throne and saw Emperor Ainz sitting on his Throne, he still had a simple metallic mask over his face. The Greed King looked forward and nervously studied him, he was emitting an incalculable amount of power, in fact so much power even a high level being should be burned out.
"Lord Ainz, I have seen you have spent your time here very active, as one once normal human being to another I am glad to speak with a someone of my own kind and own understanding." The Greed King said,
"I really do not think we share much in common other than the way and time we arrive on this planet but other than that I feel that you are a most unpleasant being" Ainz said with a heavy labored rasp.
"Well, I did not take it upon my mantle to tame this world as I felt my meddling would cause further harm but I can see by your actions are seemingly pure as you have brought forth social change and technology to these people." He replied.
"I have no time for your idle prattle, I smell fear a mile away, you thought you could waltz in and dictate terms until you saw my Empire, now that you have seen the full gravity for the first time in your pathetic existence you are at a disadvantage. I must admit when I contacted you using my Golden Throne I was somewhat vague as I knew you a coward and would not come so let us get on with this exchange." He labored in a voice that seemed like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.
"I see you notice I am thrown of balance by your accomplishments but that is in no way to belittle mine, I am sure your scientist have discovered my FTL drive to be a working model based of the ship I found." He replied
"Yes, this." Ainz held up a compad. "I have just got in the review and your drive is viable and we have already started construction." He labored and wheezed.
"Really that is fantastic, if I may it sounds as if you are in bad health is there nothing that can be done to ease you Lord AInz." The Greed King asked.
"No, this is by my own doing it is the stress of the Golden Throne that is put on my body, you see the same way I found you is also the way I found the answer you seek. I can go anywhere in the Universe in this, with heavy concentration make contact or markers, I can see the very fabric of time and space and the Ether Currents that control much of everything." Ainz said a little more firmly.
"Well, I have given you the technology now tell me, how did we get here, and how do we get home?" The Greed King finally asked.
"First, you must understand how the universe really worked, as I understand it you were a Astrophysics Graduate student back on earth correct?" Ainz wheezed.
"Yes, although a life ago that is true" He replied.
"Then you were only looking at half the picture when you created your model of this universe, you see on Earth we lived out on the Northern Spiral Arm of the Milky way galaxy, which was tragically far away from the a Ether Current that flowed from the center of the galaxy." Ainz said.
"What are these Ether currents, you speak of Lord Ainz" The Greed King asked like a student hungry to learn.
"They are flows of pure psychic energy that comes from large clusters of sentient life, Earth was so far away from the center of the Galaxy we did not have a direct Ether current, you see these currents are what we call magic here. That is why we can use magic here but not on earth a tragedy really as it stunted our growth." Ainz said
"So what does that have to do with us being here?" He asked.
"Simple, when we were hooked up to the game there was an explosion of Ether in the Milky way, it took the information from our nanites in our bodies and it extracted it, our consciousness flowed along the currents until we ended up deposited here."
"How can that be." The Greed King said.
"How can it not, the nanites in our bodies had all of our character information, we were in our guild halls so it had that as well, whatever we had around us was "uploaded" if you will on the psychic currents and after hundreds of years deposited on this planet, right in the middle of a current. It explains the time delay, as we were traveling for hundreds of years and found our way here, why here I am still working on that." Ainz said impatiently.
"Then how do we get back?" He slowly said.
"Are you deaf?! There was as explosion some sort of catastrophic event, most likely the entire galaxy collapsed, I have seen were the milky way is supposed to be and there is nothing but a void, are bodies are dead and along with everyone else, good riddance" Ainz said with a stunted laugh.
"How can that! I cannot believe this you told me there was a way back!" He yelled.
"I did not lie I can give you a ship, you can see for yourself when we get the technology right." He replied.
"I will go, I simply cannot believe this is reality and we are not in some kind of high resolution simulation." He quipped.
"I thought this would happen so I prepared a little gift for you, this is a data cube of my travel 1000 light years from our planet." He threw it in the air and it beamed the information Ainz had seen directly into his head.
The Greed King saw the milky way then he saw a large flash in the center, then the image zoomed in and he could see the Ether streams flowing through space like water but then something like a large wave of Ether flowed in every direction. He saw all types of beings in the galaxy perish and turn to dust as the wave went over there planet. Large empires, planets with no intelligent life and then a little blue pearl of earth, even with all the pollution it was still beautiful to him. But then the wave went over it and it shriveled up and died like a plant, he saw everyone scream and die, he saw the last plants turn to dust, he saw maggots in his own eyes, he saw to much. He could see the surface and it was now barren dead from hundred if not thousands of years.
"Nooo!" Screaming he fell down to the ground and started to cry.
"All of those voices, gone, and somehow I always knew, I always knew!" The Greed King said.
"Yes a real tragedy, but mathematically a total probability as there are more than 200 Billion galaxies in the universe and lucky for us it was an adjoining one so I was able to find it. Now that you know the truth what will you do?" Ainz asked.
"I am not sure I was certain that if I died I would alway go home but only death awaits me" He mumbled a reply.
"Get yourself together if you never thought yourself special now you know you are. A being reborn of the Ether and not on accident, I have only a hunch but I believe something intelligent brought us here. Come join me and help unlock the secrets of the Universe and build a legacy." Ainz said holding out his hand.
"With this new data we could open up an entire new area of physics." He thought outloud.
"I need you to sequence the gate spell as magic is nothing more than a physical manifestation of Ether in the material world. We need to learn how to enter this new sub space and travel through it." Ainz said.
"You are talking about opening a physical gate into the psychic realm and attempting travel?" The Greed King asked.
"Exactly a new gate drive will make FTL seem like walking backwards if we can learn to control it, I have not observed any Xenos species in this galaxy that have done so thus far. We can cut a swath through the galaxy and establish our dominance so what do you want to do?"
"Swear allegiance for 10,000 years and after that you can do what you desire." Ainz said with his hand still out.
Maybe it was the shock of never going home or maybe his scientific curiosity but he bowed to Ainz and kissed his ring.
"I declare you shall be no longer the greed king but now Master Engineer of the Adeptus Mechanicus. We shall convert the western continent into an industrial nation, we are converting the land now. You shall run the science and production and mass produce my fleet." Ainz declared.
"Thank you Lord I will make the us the most technologically advanced Empire this Galaxy has seen!" The now Master Engineer declared in his excitement.
With his announcement the royal court came inside to hear the God Emperor's declaration.
"Everyone come forward and heed my declaration, in no less than half a year after I accented to my throne we shall assault the stars and claim the Segmentum Centerium and crush all those in the way!" Ainz declared as the court cheered.
After everyone had gone Ainz collapsed on his throne. Demiurge came in leading sixteen criminals who were sentenced to death. They all followed the commands given to them and each sat in a predetermined spot. Then tiny holes opened up from the floor and melechandrites snaked up from the floor and stabbed each prisoner in the back of the neck. Each prisoner winced in pain then turned to dust as all the life force was sucked out of them and transferred to Ainz invigorating him back to his old self.
"Ahh I did hope I could have done that before the meeting." Ainz said as he stood and stretched.
"So sorry my Lord we had a mix up with you sacrifices today, will we need to increase the sacrifices tomorrow?" Demiurge bowed and said.
"No the same everyday will be fine, but Cocytus said he would take over you duties when I ascend so make sure to guide him through the process." Ainz said.
"A noble job to protect you when you are on your throne." Demiurge said.
"Demiurge you know it is the only job I can trust him with he does not have the heart to wipe out planets." Ainz replied.
Demiurge smiled he would kill the Universe if he had been ordered to by his Lord.
2
The plan to industrialize the western continent off without a hitch. Kastral class ships orbitally bombed the entire place killing everything living, then all criminals were converted to servators to start work. Mass amounts of immigration took place with the promise of jobs and a new life. The entire continent turned from a lush green and untouched paradise to first pocked with towns and factories. After six months the whole continent was covered with housing and factories that reached up to the sky.
The skyline turned into a polluted brown haze and land was sold by the inch. Massive ships we're slowly assembled from north to south with a massive rail line that bisected the nation that carried them. After they were finished the took to the space and docked into the artificial ring that had been constructed around Terra. The ring was a massive station and space yard. It was also a great training ground for low gravity training, that the Guard and Marines trained on. It became a Marine right of passage for new recruits to run the entire circumference of the ring which was 34,000 miles long.
The Eastern Continent also reaches peak capacity with quickly with the Temple priests healing and reviving everyone. The Beings of Terra we're ready to expand to the stars as the Imperium's social engineering worked perfectly. The population was restless and ready to head out and settle the new worlds the Imperialist government had ran nonstop stories of. The problem was is that the system they lived in consisted of 12 planets three were made of gas and unlivable the next planet over which Ainz named New Mars was a red desert plant. So out of all the planets in the solar system one was inhabitable without Terraforming, All other planets were uninhabited Terra was the third planet closest to the sun, the closest star labeled Alpha Centauri A that was 4.3 light years away. It had a tropical planet that was inhabited by a race of semi aquatic race of blue frog like creatures that walked on two legs. They were advanced in technology to around the 22nd century of earth. Since they only had light refracting telescopes they had no idea of the threat that was coming. Since their aquatic nature they spent most of their time exploring the ocean instead of space.
Life was no longer full of wonders and magic as it once was as in just over a year the Imperium had turn a semi-agricultural society into an industrial one full of technology. Yes people still marveled at the new inventions that came out of the Adeptus mechanicus, it was still a age of marvels but no longer magic. Magic was now seen through a scientific lense, a universal language to tap into an unseen power of the Ether, that was coded and catalogued. As this happen society of Terra and all the races gave up their most cherished beliefs as they were all explained away, Elfs no longer worshiped nature but understood that all living things put forth psychic energy within the Ether the Emperor had discovered and wished to better understand it. Mages gave up their mystic rituals for the scientific method, and slowly a year after the Imperium of the Cult of the God Emperor became the religion for all Humans and Demi-Humans as no tribe or tongue could deny the overwhelming proof of the wisdom of the God-Emperor. What Emperor Ainz said became law, any type of discussion or debate was strictly forbidden and met with a quick end. All of those of the ancient ways that silently protested, the shaman, old ones, and wise men were taken away for processing in the night. The Imperium had slowly and surely had finally finished what the Dragons fought against, that was total domination of all thought, the population of Terra did not even realize that the only knowledge and free thought had been banned and suppressed. The only thing an Imperial citizen needed to know for sure was that "The Emperor Protects" and anything else was heresy.
The Imperium held an iron grip on the people and freedom was a phantom of the early years of the Empire of Nazarick and for those that remember the Sorcerous Kingdom. They still existed but in name only, most on Terra passed their lives in a factory living in cramped quarters in the Western continent, only the higher class citizen were able to live in the less densely populated Eastern continent. The promise of riches and new worlds were satiating the population for now, and the promise of this new world was received with great joy for those looking to get away. Before the war was announced one thing had to take place and that was the Marriage of the First High Lord of Terra Momonga Albedo Gown to the Princess Shallteer Alabaster II. It was decided that the Emperor ascension and the wedding would take place on the same day followed by a week of celebration. Then the Black crusade began, 1000 ships, 1 Behemoth class the size of a small city to carry settlers, 4 Dreadnought classes 1 for each Chaos guardians and 995 Kastral class attack ships that were mass produced already docked in the space station ring ready to tear a path of destruction across the stars.
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