|Hannah – Admiral of the 1st Fleet|
It has been five months. Five months since our lord and savior, Theodore, rescued us from slavery and gave us ultimate freedom. It has been five months since we freed ourselves from the aliens' leash and took the fight to their home planet.
Since then, we have been growing. Growing and becoming better.
With the newly rescued and freed people, we are expanding further and further. The Eternitus Empire is growing and growing. Using the technology of borderline magic, we can survey a system with ease and colonize planets that have good enough compatibility with our race.
We are even starting to terraform planets with a solid enough foundation.
It has been happening so fast. One moment, I am a woman who keeps running away from the slavers who want to eat me—running away from the local fauna, running away from the unknown.
Now? Now I am an Admiral of a massive starship.
It is an honor to serve under such a magnanimous person. Emperor Theodore is kind and wise. However, that doesn't make him weak. He can be stern. He can be strict. He can be commanding.
He is the perfect person to serve.
Is it any wonder that a religion starts to appear? Is it any wonder that people start worshipping him? I am not surprised, and I think he knows about the movement. However, instead of demanding that we worship him even more or forbidding us from worshipping him, he shows us the truth.
He shows us what happens to our faith when it is used incorrectly. With a wave of his hand, he shows us the Warp, or the Immaterium. He shows us what happens if faith is used incorrectly. It gives birth to creatures so foul that it makes me want to puke.
He shows us the embodiment of War, Blood, and Carnage. He shows us the embodiment of Schemes, Hubris, and Uncontrolled Magic. He shows us the embodiment of Rot, Plague, and Despair. He shows us the embodiment of Excess, Lust, and Greed.
Each of them is foul and makes my skin crawl. They are the so-called Gods of Chaos. They are nothing more than creatures born from the emotions of the people in this galaxy. They are creatures born from the Warp that think of themselves as gods.
They demand worship without offering anything in return. They are nothing but parasites.
Our Lord then tells us the reason why he showed us that. He wants us to know that our faith can create a creature that mimics him in the Warp and claims to be him. However, he also knows that he cannot forbid them from worshipping him.
It is human nature to worship something that we don't understand and feel is bigger than life.
So, he offered us an alternative. I still remember it like yesterday. He opened a portal—a portal to paradise. I saw the people who died in battle and from old age laughing and enjoying their eternity in paradise.
So, instead of letting all the faith go wild and create more Warp creatures, he will put that faith into this paradise. Our lord connects our souls to this place. Instead of going to the Warp like any other souls, ours will enter that place and earn eternal sleep before our souls fade naturally.
Once again, he proves to us that he deserves to be called a god. He never demands worship, but he keeps giving us everything.
His only demand is that we do not perform it publicly, at least for now. According to him, someone powerful will come and invite him to the Great Crusade, a movement that unites all humanity across the stars under one banner.
Sadly, this person does not like worship and instead demands that there be no worship of gods during his reign. He tries to defeat the four parasites by eliminating all religions. What a fool. He does not know the nature of humanity, unlike our lord.
We happily accept that demand, and now the religion is growing very quickly.
I release a sigh and look out of the window. It is not really a window, but rather metal that mimics window properties. I am currently going through the third system we claim and making sure no aliens enter our space.
I am also protecting all the scientists and builders in this system. They are the ones who analyze all the fauna, flora, and ore on each planet in the system. Out of the five planets we colonize, two of them produce something that is really fascinating.
Lord Theodore calls it Black Stone. It is a pitch-black stone that emits a unique frequency that repels the Immaterium. While the scientists bumble around, trying to unveil the secret behind the stone, our Lord immediately knows what to do with that thing.
He creates something called a Black Stone Pylon. It amplifies the frequency, and if not for the fact that we are connected to our Lord, we would be screaming in pain at the unpleasant feeling the Black Stone releases when amplified.
At his order, we harvest the stones and store them inside a vault. We will use them later, when we do not need the Warp to go around the galaxy. He assigns some of the scientists to develop another FTL drive so we can replace the Warp drive.
I shake my head and take out the comm. It is time for us to move.
"This is Admiral Hannah of the Star Seeker. We will move to the next system in ten minutes. Prepare for the jump drive and recall all the harvesters."
The harvesters. They are drones that harvest all asteroids, space debris, and space junk left behind by the aliens, then convert them into energy for later use. That energy then turns into anything we want.
Another miracle that our Lord brings to us.
Even with the new knowledge and ability our Lord gives us through the connection between us and his knowledge implant, we still cannot understand how it works. The mechanisms of the drones are so far beyond us.
I snap out of my thoughts when I feel the bridge rumble. It means the drive is ready, and it is time for us to depart for the next system. As the name suggests, the Star Seeker is a ship that seeks new stars for us to claim.
The Eternitus Empire shall grow and become the empire that brings eternal peace across the galaxy!
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I look into the sky as I feel something within the Warp. Even without entering the Warp, I can feel it. The Astronomican has been lit, and soon my father will go across the stars to search for my brothers and me.
With a deep breath, I enter the Warp. I ignore the massive golden star in the place where light is a mere suggestion.
Instead, I look at the previously sailing pods. I frown a little when there are only eighteen left sailing through the Warp. One of them has already left and is unreachable. Ah, is this the Lost Primarch? That means that I am supposedly the Purged Primarch.
I miscalculated. I should have intervened early and made sure I did not lose any brother. However, it is already too late, and I can only hope that he is fine wherever he might arrive.
For now, I am looking at the first one to come out of the Warp. It does not take me long to predict where he will land. When I dig deeper, I can see a world of endless night. It is a world where pollution covers the sky and a perpetual solar eclipse blots out the sun.
Konrad Curze.
He is the first one to land and the most deserving person to be rescued. He does not deserve what is happening to him, and I want to change his fate. I get up and say,
"Ana."
Ana appears inside my computer and says,
"Yes, Theo?"
"Prepare Star Explorer. We need to go to Nostramo."
"Huh? Why? According to my log, the Nostramo Sector consists solely of mining worlds. We can produce the metal through our fabricator, Theo."
"No. It is not about the metal. It is about my brother."
At the mention of my brother, her face turns serious.
"Is it time?"
"Yes. It is time to rescue my brother. He will leave the Warp in 24 hours. We need to reach him as fast as possible."
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