Warhammer 40: From the League of Humans to Warhammer

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The plan to steal the sky and change the sun has been launched—

Beneath the laboratory's dome, three hundred incubation chambers simultaneously glowed with a ghostly blue light. Within the liquid nutrient solution, a body identical to Planet Governor Kaswall was growing at a visible rate.

Zhou Qing stood in front of the central control console, his fingers flying across the holographic keyboard as he inputted the collected memory data into the brains of these clones.

"Memory implantation completion rate 97%..." The synthesized voice of artificial intelligence echoed in the laboratory, "The clone has been successfully cultivated, congratulations."

Zhou Qing stopped what he was doing and looked at the 300 human imperialists in front of him. The high-ranking officials on this planet nodded.

Cloning technology, in general, is not a technology with good applications. Cloning humans, especially those that develop rapidly, requires some special resources.

Of all these rare resources, the one that Zhou Qing finds most distressing is the consumption of alien natural gas.

Zhou Qing doesn't have many of these things now.

If these guys hadn't been able to bring him so much benefit, Zhou Qing wouldn't have used this technology at all.

Moreover, according to federal law, a cloned person automatically becomes a federal citizen.

They also possess federal citizenship, which is not something they can squander or discard at will.

Although Zhou Qing is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Federation, and is even in a new universe, he is still willing to abide by the laws and regulations of the Federation.

Zhou Qing stared at the neatly arranged clones in the incubation chamber, the deep blue light casting dappled shadows on his cold face.

These clones are not just replicas, but rather "evolutionary versions" he meticulously designed—all genetic diseases have been removed from their gene sequences, their neural reaction speed has increased by 23%, and even their telomere length has been reprogrammed, with a theoretical lifespan of up to 900 standard years.

This kind of lifespan extension would be much more useful than the human empire's life-extending surgery.

"Activate the consciousness transfer protocol." Zhou Qing's voice echoed in the laboratory.

The neural link devices on the top of the three hundred culture chambers lit up simultaneously, precisely imprinting the original's memories and personality patterns into the cerebral cortex of each clone.

But after this final step was completed, 300 high-ranking officials of the human empire emerged from the training program, each accompanied by two soldiers from the mechanical legion.

Zhou Qing simply looked at the people in front of him without saying anything more. With these people taking action, the planet would be under his control by the next morning.

As for the political interests they originally carried, they will all be replaced by his group.

To be honest, this kind of method is really dirty.

Moreover, normally, such a thing cannot be used in the Federation, since the Federation can directly detect a person's soul, and even if they look very similar, their souls are still different.

Soul detection technology is one of the Federation's core technologies. It can confirm that you are who you are, and not someone else, to avoid taking the blame for someone else.

Everything was successfully completed; all that was needed was to wait quietly until the next day when the planet would completely change hands.

Zhou Qing could then openly and legitimately take over the rule of this planet, and then quietly and stealthily develop within the human empire.

Although he intends to rebuild the Federation of Humanity, he does not intend to leave the humans here to be engulfed in war.

This stemmed from a sense of public duty among the citizens of the Federation; he wanted to see what a good way was to take over the entire human empire as completely as possible.

Moreover, even without mentioning all of this, he, with only one planet, had no confidence whatsoever in confronting this vast human empire.

Based solely on the information he has gathered during this period, this human empire possesses a full 100 million colony planets!

Moreover, this number is only a rough estimate; their colonies are increasing and decreasing every minute and every day.

The number of colonies is even greater than that of the human federation already existing in a large universe.

The entire Federation has fewer than 1800 colonies, while this human empire has more than 100 million, and it is said that the number is increasing every moment.

Even Zhou Qing, who came from the Human Federation, was shocked to see the Human Empire performing so poorly.

But he still couldn't imagine just how powerful this super empire, with a total of 100 million colony planets and an increasing number every minute, truly was!

Chapter 27 Successfully Taking Control of the Entire Nest City

When the sun shone again on the city the next day, the planet had already changed its owners without anyone noticing.

From this day forward, the hive world of the Betel Empire entered a new era.

Two days after the replacement was completed, the clone that replaced Zhou Qing as the planetary governor handed over the position to Zhou Qing from a completely new perspective.

No one objected to this move, since Zhou Qing had replaced all the senior executives with his own people.

As for the objections of the lower-class nobles, they are insignificant and need not be taken seriously.

The objections raised by ordinary minor nobles and the families of former planetary governors were of no concern to Zhou Qing.

After all, the succession of the planetary governorship was carried out in public, and the entire high command of the planetary empire had already approved of it.

Although the planetary governor's family had objections, they dared not say anything more.

The Mechanicus, the State Church, and the Inquisition are no joke.

As a family of planetary governors, they knew very well that if they jumped at this time, they would definitely be branded as heretics or thrown out of the nest and torn to pieces by the Greenskins.

Zhou Qing simply couldn't be bothered with the behavior of those nobles.

He needs to sort out the situation of this Nest City world first.

What kind of situation is Zhou Qing facing now that he has just taken over this Nest City world?

According to his reconnaissance, the number of greens on the planet has exceeded 25 billion, and there are still a large number of greens being born continuously.

And what kind of subordinates does he have?

If we don't take into account the mechanical legions and underground town troops he accumulated in the previous year.

So his forces consisted of nothing more than a broken human empire, the Hive, and some Astral Army and Hive forces still fighting.

It's a huge mess.

At the same time, he also saw the various policies left by the previous planetary governor, all of which amazed Zhou Qing.

Look at the working hours limit in the Federation of Humanities. A person can only work 6 hours a day, which is the limit stipulated by law.

Normally, a job is only 4 hours long. After 4 hours, overtime pay will be paid. Overtime cannot exceed 6 hours of work per day, otherwise the boss will be arrested and executed.

But how are they defined in this world?

They use the same standard time as the Federation of Humans, but they somehow stipulate that their citizens must work 14 hours a day under normal circumstances.

During the Greenskin crisis, this time was pushed to 16 hours, and at its peak, it was compressed to 17 hours.

What's even more outrageous is that this overtime work is unpaid. Zhou Qing stared dumbfounded at the decree in front of him, utterly bewildered as to how such a civilization could possibly survive.

Won't those guys down there stand up and fight back?

Oh no, they can't resist.

Although this civilization is frankly quite inhuman, it is still an interstellar civilization. Any resistance from ordinary people is unlikely to shake the foundation of this massive civilization; it will only be met with brutal suppression.

But then again, he had never seen anything so outrageous before; it was completely anti-human and inhumane!

Zhou Qing looked at the agreement in front of him, unsure of what to say. He scratched his head in a daze.

Not only Zhou Qing, but even the government officials he trained were dumbfounded when they saw this extremely abstract government system.

How could these government officials, trained by the human federal government system, have ever been exposed to such outrageous government affairs as the human empire?

Zhou Qing did not interfere in the planet's internal affairs. He simply handed these matters over to the 60 internal affairs officers he had trained to handle, while he began to learn about the situation of the human empire.

Zhou Qing originally planned to look for something like a quantum storage chip to see if there were any such storage devices.

To his surprise, after searching around, he finally found the book in the library...

Books are naturally a common commodity in the Federation of Humans.

However, normally these paper books contain unimportant information or novels.

This was the first time he had ever seen an interstellar civilization record its important information in a paper book.

He could accept it; after all, he was a researcher in three departments of the Federation, and it was just a small book.

He could accept that he could continue reading these books to obtain information about the human empire.

Although it wasn't nearly as comfortable as directly reading data, reading was still a leisurely and elegant activity, so Zhou Qing plunged into the library and began looking up all sorts of materials.

This lasted for five days, and Zhou Qing finally emerged from the library after five days.

Alright, now he understands the situation of the human empire.

He has already established some basic frameworks.

He already knew some common-sense things, especially the limitations of the human empire's AI.

This human empire worships a god called the Emperor, whom they refer to as the God-Emperor, who is said to sit on a golden throne in Terra.

Of course, this is not some superstitious rumor. This God-Emperor has his own great power, which is to provide a starlight in the warp to guide the ships of the entire human empire.

To put it simply, this God-Emperor is like a giant lighthouse.

Although Zhou Qing didn't understand why this human empire needed a lighthouse to guide them when navigating in the warp.

However, he had also come to understand that this god was not a useless being, but rather a useful one, and that the survival of this human empire depended on this god.

This is a great man—

Zhou Qing turned to look at the so-called emperor statue and said this.

He was a great man whose existence lit a beacon for human civilization.

Although he didn't understand why the world's technology was so distorted, requiring a lighthouse to guide the way when navigating in subspace.

However, based on the technological inferences of this interstellar civilization, without this lighthouse, the entire human empire might have already fallen apart.

Moreover, this human empire seems to have been unified under the leadership of a god called the Emperor, who led the human empire on a great expedition.

This is an indisputable achievement.

From this perspective, this emperor truly deserves the title of a god.

Within the Federation, if he could achieve such feats, he could be directly deified.

Zhou Qing made a gesture of worship, a gesture reserved for deities by the Federation, in the direction of the Emperor.

Unbeknownst to everyone, the golden throne on Holy Terra underwent some changes.

A surge of extremely pure spiritual energy rushed into the golden throne, though the emperor's body remained shriveled and dried up like a corpse.

But in places unseen by everyone, he showed a tiny, barely perceptible improvement.

Even in the warp, the Emperor's almost vanished humanity returned slightly, though it was almost negligible, but there was indeed some improvement.