From Skaven to God-King of War

Through the bizarre subspace, a huge fleet successfully landed on the empty starry sky.

Qi didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to take on this expedition. Standing on the bridge, his eyes fell into the distance. The last ratman reconnaissance ship that traveled back and forth on this route was indeed very diligent and did a good job.

At least when Qi appeared here through the subspace node, he didn't have to face the vast starry sky. The target could be observed even with the naked eye, a huge galaxy with two stars, but even so, it would take 20 years for the first expedition fleet to successfully reach the target star field.

In addition to the time required for the subsequent conquest war, Qi might take almost a hundred years to complete this colonial war, and the history of the ratmen on the starry sky is only two hundred years. Even whether Qi's life can support him to complete this war is a huge problem.

In order to go back alive, to the ratman empire alive, Qi had to enter a long period of hibernation in the days to come to preserve his life.

In the twenty years of sailing to the colonized planet, he will enter hibernation with a frequency of ten years. This long hibernation will last until the first expedition fleet of the rats actually arrives at the destination.

Twenty years is enough time for the rats to rotate for a generation, even if the treatment on the expedition fleet is already the best in the rat empire, and the life span of the rats has also increased after entering the starry sky.

In fact, this expedition should take several generations of rats to complete. The young rats carried by this fleet will give birth to children in this long process, and then grow old, and then their children will grow up to take over their work, and then grow old, and rotate like this.

Not all rats can enter the hibernation chamber. The rat warships are not smart enough to perform self-maintenance. A lot of maintenance work will appear at all times, which requires a large number of rats to participate.

Facing the dark steel and narrow rooms all the time, they also have to work. Such days do not seem to be good, but in fact, before departure, the quota on the first fleet is extremely scarce.

Maybe staying in the First Expeditionary Fleet and heading for the unknown days is not good, but in fact, staying in the Skaven Empire may be even worse.

Even the guys who boarded the First Expeditionary Fleet and served as maintenance laborers were all the Skaven boys from the Lower City. Although it hurts, in fact, the Skaven boys from the Lower City are not qualified to board such an expeditionary fleet. Even if it is maintenance labor, the maintenance labor on such an expeditionary fleet requires Skavens with certain skills to be competent.

In fact, more people who came to the First Expeditionary Fleet were the second sons of the Skaven bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen on the Fortress Star, those Skaven boys who received a decent education but had no inheritance rights.

Having a decent education makes them unwilling to leave the Fortress Star and go to those desolate industrial planets or barren agricultural planets, and having no inheritance rights makes it difficult for them to move up on the Fortress Star, the capital planet of the Skaven Empire.

Among these guys, the lucky ones can get a sum of money or a simple job on the day they lose their inheritance rights, while the unlucky ones will be directly kicked out. A group of frustrated guys, they poured in when the first expedition fleet was about to set off, perhaps because they felt that there were special colors for conquest and colonization in places far enough away.

In fact, this is indeed a glorious thing. After all, Qi attaches great importance to this matter. Their great emperor of the empire attaches great importance to this colonization. During that time, almost all the rats in the newspapers and media of the Fortress Star were praising these rat youths who dared to travel far. This was an absolute correctness and enthusiasm, not because those rat bureaucrats and rat media, those rat girls really understood the significance of this expedition.

But because this is what their great rat emperor wanted, this is a kind of shaped glory.

But no matter how restless the atmosphere and intoxicating the boasting are, they will not be endless. They stop at the moment when the first expedition fleet sets sail.

After all, the empty universe is not a very interesting place. It is quiet, dead, and empty. But I don't know if they are really ready to face it.

When Qi entered the dormant chamber and began a ten-year dormancy, the spacecraft was taken over by Qi's deputy. Qi's two deputies will also be rotated, with a rotation period of five years to support this long voyage.

This long journey began.

Of course, the passage of time is not so obvious now.

The first expedition fleet of the ratmen, the flagship, the lower cabin, and the living area.

Perhaps it was due to the negligence of the ratmen engineers who designed the flagship, or perhaps this group of chaos just didn't pay attention to the living area in the flagship. In a passage where the living area and the industrial area meet, the cooling pipe repeatedly broke in a posture that can be called an incurable disease.

This made the ratmen youths living in this area miserable.

As a last resort, two unlucky positions were specially set up, pipeline caretakers. Two unlucky guys were chosen to become the unlucky pipeline caretakers. This is a very leisurely but boring position. The job is also very simple, which is to stare at the cooling pipes in this passage every day. In order to avoid blocking the passage, two small stools were placed in the narrow pipe well.

What they have to do every day is to get up and crawl into the narrow pipe well, and then sit there bored. If the cooling pipe is broken, they will repair it. If the cooling pipe is working normally, they will ignore it and just sit there.

Today, it is time to work again.

A young rat man climbed up from the stiff metal window. It has been a month, and he still has not been able to completely adapt to the iron window that will not deform at all. Every day when he climbs up, he feels a pain in his waist and back.

He held his waist with his claws and groaned in pain.

Every day, he greeted the rat engineers of the Imperial Engineering Bureau.

He raised his head and glanced at the time. No! It's too late!

There was no time to make any preparations. The young rat man ran out of the room.

Even in this huge flagship, except for the industrial area where goods are allowed to be mobilized, the roads in other areas are not wide. Of course, it is enough for the rats.

However, this young ratman, who had been pampered on the Fortress Star, was also dissatisfied with the road that required him to lower his head to travel normally. Since the rats no longer built cities underground, the narrow road design habit was also abandoned. However, being able to make such a complaint actually still explained the birth of this young ratman. After all, only those super cities of rats could have such wide and bright roads.

Walking along this narrow road and rushing to the right, the young ratman came to a huge open cabin. At this time point, there were many ratmen in this open cabin.

"Finally caught up!"

He breathed a sigh of relief and squeezed into the dense team. Soon it was his turn. On a shiny metal tray, a dry and hard energy block, a bowl of sticky mushroom porridge and broth, this was his breakfast today. Admittedly, this was not bad, but the young ratman was still not satisfied.

But he was no longer on the Fortress Star. A month was enough for him to recognize some things clearly.

In the corner of the canteen, the young ratman found his co-worker, another unlucky guy. The two guys sat together and complained about the food in their hands.

In this huge canteen, the two of them gathered in this corner.

The rats' habit of sticking together has not changed at all even in this interstellar era, especially in this unfamiliar and uneasy environment, but even sticking together has a threshold.

The rats in the same area stick together, and the rats who work on the same thing stick together. But this unlucky guy just got the job of watching the pipeline. No rat circle is willing to accept him. He can only start to ask about the other unlucky guy who was assigned to watch the pipeline.

The two guys started chatting with each other, but the content was inseparable from how they used to be on the fortress star. The rats around them left one by one until the canteen became empty, and they stood up reluctantly.

Their work is extremely leisurely. As long as there is no problem with the freezing pipe, they can do whatever they want.

While talking, they arrived at the work place, opened the hidden door on the silver metal passage, climbed up the stairs, squeezed into the narrow pipe well, and two stools were quietly displayed.

The desire to talk gradually faded, and the two guys sat down in their respective positions, with the constant buzzing of the pipes in their ears and the almost unchanging opponent in front of them.

Gradually, they became sluggish.

How long will this situation last? Will he sit here forever? Day after day, in a daze, the young rat man began to have wild thoughts.

He didn't expect such a life, although if you asked him to say what he was expecting when he boarded the First Expeditionary Fleet, he would stammer and couldn't say it.

But what is certain is that he regrets it now.

Time passed day by day, and there was almost no change in the days. This voyage was not so easy. In the first year of the voyage, there was a big problem in the planting area. An insect plague broke out. Those damned rat merchants sold them the nutrient base that had not been strictly disinfected. The pests germinated in a very short time and almost destroyed the fleet's food supply system.

Fortunately, the raw materials carried by the industrial zone were sufficient. After a batch of production lines for cleaning fluid were transformed into pesticides at a very fast speed, the insect plague was suppressed.

During that time, the fleet's food supply was almost halved, and all the rats only had a piece of dry energy block for each meal. This difficult situation lasted until the planting area started operating again, but fortunately, except for this insect plague, the First Expeditionary Fleet did not encounter any major emergencies, and it could be said to be in order.

Of course, this is for the First Expeditionary Fleet.

A year is not long or short, but it is enough to make a rat youth who was originally quite energetic become numb and sluggish.

He climbed up from the hard metal bed in a trance. In this year, he, the guy guarding the cooling pipes, had completely become a marginalized person. He no longer cared about them unless the cooling pipes broke again.

He numbly left the room and rushed to the rat man canteen, lined up, took his breakfast, sat down in a familiar corner, waited for everyone to leave, and then returned to the narrow pipe well to continue guarding the cooling pipe that might break.

Just like that, a day passed, and he felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but when he thought seriously about what he had forgotten, he couldn't give an answer.

He walked towards his room in a trance until a commotion sounded around him. He stopped and turned around. In an open cabin, he saw a familiar figure, his colleague, the other unlucky guy.

But now, this guy was hanging quietly in the room.

He finally knew what he had forgotten in these days. His colleague was gone, and the other unlucky guy just left.

Soon, a team of rat man medical team wearing white robes came here and took away the hanging rat man's body.

He watched all this unfold, and finally came back to his senses from his trance. His eyes fell on the small window in his colleague's room that could face the vast starry sky. When he first boarded the flagship, he was very much looking forward to getting a room with a window. Unexpectedly, his colleague, who was also unlucky, was luckier than him.

He really regretted it now, really regretted it, but it was a pity that he couldn't go back, and he couldn't go back anymore!

This expedition required more than one generation of ratmen to participate, and most of the ratmen might not even wait until the day when the fleet arrived at the destination.

It was strange to say that the constant leakage in the living area repeatedly tortured the cooling pipes of many ratmen. After having two dedicated people to look after it, it never leaked again. People couldn't tell whether it was a design error of the ratmen engineers or some other reason for the leakage.

However, the assigned position had never been replaced. Even if it was unclear what the caretaker was for, it was still left here. If it was withdrawn, it would be troublesome if it leaked again.