Log #143

Finally managing to get the human visitors off my planet, or at least the bulk of them. A few 'custodians' and 'Mago's' are staying. But I have them in the upper factory and really there isn't anything there. The important part is there are no longer people I'm obligated to talk to and host.

Aside from a god of nature, but she has her own thing going on right now.

I am a bit sad that Palisade left, He took a full half the fleet and enough equipment to start a factory of his own. His first plan is to find a system with some actual resources in it unlike this barren one, and make his chapters recruitment world. I'm making training facilities for them, over a thousand miles of differing environments and enemies for them to train against.

Balistraia is going to bully the children. I'd feel bad but better now than in a war, also going to ignore the moral issues of child soldiers. But I really don't like this galaxy, and you can pretend it's okay if they just don't see combat until they turn into adults. Which by the Emperor's standard is 18. Could be better yeah, but it could be significantly worse.

Anyway, exponential production of ships is starting to ramp up. And ideally the kids won't have a war to fight by the time they get trained enough to fight it. Gives me like ten years to end conflict in a galaxy that's been at war for millions of years. Which sounds daunting until you realize that's left everyone fighting in it weak from well, constant war.

Isha has started giving me lessons on Eldar technology, most of it doesn't work because the really good stuff works on pure warp stuff or godly power and Chaos is still a thing. But I have a few ideas for that, mostly running it off my own micro-warp kept safe from said chaos. Less power sure but power that isn't full of daemons.

That and getting her help designing combat robots, I might not like machine spirits but I've apparently been making and binding them to my soul for years now, so I should probably learn how to use them.

Too much to do, very little time. Good thing I can do all of the things at the same time, automation for the win.

Current game plan, mass produce war seeds. Automated factories that can be sent to any world to produce as many units as they have resources, slowly subsuming the world and sending out more war seeds once the world is secure. Then automated defense systems and Isha stuff to make the world a safe habitable paradise.

Launching tens of thousands of these through the warp, with enough safety systems that no one should be able to steal them even if they knew how my tech worked. I don't expect them to work on every world, any place with a orks for instance would likely crush the war seed. Same with most FTL capable civilizations. But they are the opening wave.

Simple dumb machines that can't wage a proper war, but mass produced on a galactic scale. Once a world is secured it'll send a ship back to Nauvis, and I'll establish an uplink with it either to Nauvis or the nearest connected world. Allowing my minds or myself to take proper control of the resources there. Where it will be used to pacify the surrounding systems or planets.

Ships will be constructed, troops loaded, and worlds conquered. Anti Chao's symbols will be written on the scale of stars and planets and anywhere I find with the taint shall be rendered down into their component atoms before even the energy making them up will be destroyed.

Before I hadn't really cared that much about the galaxy at large. I'd been content to build on my few worlds and learn. I was safe, nothing could destroy me faster than I could outbuild it.

Now however, the closest thing I had to a son was going out into the wild. And I'd be damned if every beast hiding in the woods wasn't dead before he found them. I can't imagine a gray goo scenario didn't occur in the war in heaven. And Isha even has stories of fighting necron machines just like me. But there's a few differences between me and them, one I am working with Isha, and Two, this isn't the war in heaven.

If it was I'd be crushed, but this? As far as I can understand it a Primarch is as physically powerful as a primarch, and arguably more durable. Armed with better ships, tech, and with the backing of trillions of themselves. And they died in droves.

Here and now? A Primarch is a noteworthy threat. Not a common foot soldier, hell a full powered Isha fought with a full pantheon in that war. Fully powered gods that at the height of their power could crush at least a few of the chaos gods.

The foes I face are the broken remnants. Nothing remains that can just punt five blackholes into every system I'm in to stop the spread. And with both the 'good' gods either working with or not working against me. Well, this will be interesting.

As for the home front. Isha has finally started growing war forms herself, testing them against the bugs and my own robots. And we have been combining robots and war forms. It's been highly effective, and the bugs are starting to ramp up to their war footing. And oddly enough they haven't been trying to assault my main base anymore, nor any of my important infrastructure.

Still destroying outposts by the minute, but nothing I actually care about.

With how intelligent the bugs are I wouldn't be surprised if they're more worried about evolving more than they are with killing me. They don't have the safety net of colonies on other worlds if Nauvis gets destroyed and recently there have been more and more threats coming from space.

I don't even know if I'd stop them from getting into space, actually I wouldn't. The bugs don't try to trick you, corrupt you, or eat your soul. They just want you dead if you're a threat. Much better than orks, who torture captives and keep slaves, or Chao's which doesn't need to be justified.

So I'll just let them figure out space flight on their own. And the thought of bugs getting stuck in the warp amuses me highly. They'd infest that place within a few years. Which might be an idea…

Anyway, the end goal is to raid a Necron tomb world and steal anti warp tech, or develop it on my own. Then build it on every planet, in the orbit of every star, and to fill the void between stars with even more as an added measure.

Will this severely weaken human psychers, eldar, and both the gods I'm working with? Probably. But I can probably fine tune them to allow Isha to exist. If not I can just leave a small quarantined section of the galaxy for the gods to play in and shoot anything warpy that comes out and isn't the plant lady.

As for current problems, well there are some 'dark' eldar ships lurking about in the far reaches of my system acting like I can't see them. And more orks, seemingly lead here by said dark eldar fleet. Which.. With half my fleet missing still isn't a problem. Let them land, they won't be leaving again.

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A human soul, especially a vat grown and horribly damaged one, cannot safely channel the power of a god. It would have, should have torn the soul apart at the seams. Instead, the soul trapped within metal armor was held in place, forced to remain whole as the diminished and weak presence of a god of life flowed through it. The healing energy of the god, and the armor binding it, allowed the soul to live. And the soul began to dump the energy out of itself wherever it could, being well versed in dealing with toxic substances.

But the energy never stopped flowing, the armor grew ever stronger and the flow gradually increased. Eventually the small human soul simply couldn't purge the energy faster than it took it in. And the amount of energy in the soul grew and grew, and the soul now healed with time and care began to change. It couldn't grow, the armor wouldn't let it, but it could change in other ways.

Soon, you couldn't even tell the soul had ever been human, but it was not divine, nor was it daemonic. A godly soul was far larger and imbued with a domain, and a daemonic thing was corruptive. This was neither, it was simply a soul. One filled with power so densely that the glow could be felt through its planets worth or armor.

And then the soul started to pulse like a heart, the light flashing through the circuits and systems of itself, as its armor was truly a part of it, and the light grew and grew as the armor changed to accommodate it. All the creatures of the warp looked on with confusion or dread as the light began to bathe a small portion of the realm. Seemingly harmless, but nothing in the warp was truly harmless.

One god however looked on with pride, her plan finally beginning to take root.

AN-

I feel like you guys think I'm incapable of plot twists. Anyway ignore that last sentence. I was very sick this last week, so if there are any errors in either of this short chapters let me know. I can barely remember that I wrote them.

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