Fabricated Hazards (factorio fanfic)
I feel like this is too much too fast. I'm not oppossed to throwing him into 40k, but adding a Primarch into the mix just makes the MC completely irrelevant. Anything he can do the Primarch can do better with the sole exception of some vague 'one with the factory' thing.
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oh entirely, the engineer will always be irrelevant in a space setting though, the minds are the only things capable of being in more than one place at a time, In this its made worse by there literally being a better version of the engineer, in the form of a primarch.
no the interesting thing here is how the engineer affects the setting through his influence on a primarch and a few other characters. This isn't a true story though, it's more of a what if.
although the same thing that annoys you annoys me. just less than i enjoy watching a primarch get raised by a factorio character.
late game engineer is basically just an advanced spidertron, not very important to the running of the factory, at least it is for me, i sometimes play for hours without moving him.
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SUCK IT, NURGLE! NO SOUP FOR YOU!
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40k wow 😮 this guy some shit luck. However his AI don't seem to be he type chaos can hi-Jack since they are hooked up right to his mind. He has a bloody primarch and what seems to be a lost one as his son and finally if I'm not mistaken that's istar the eldar goddess in his living room.
Good chapter if he finds a recked human ship and most of the common human technology he could probably turn his planet in to a ship of some kind, because the way his mental network is set up I don't think he can leave his factory's behind with out going crazy.
Can't wait to find out what happens next thanks for the chapter.
Good chapter if he finds a recked human ship and most of the common human technology he could probably turn his planet in to a ship of some kind, because the way his mental network is set up I don't think he can leave his factory's behind with out going crazy.
Can't wait to find out what happens next thanks for the chapter.
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I prefer basement or garden shed rather than living room
I thought to myself, "what's the worst thing that could happen to the engineer in 30k" and came up with "he shows up in the eye of terror" then I called myself stupid for thinking of little things and dropped him straight into the warp
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It's 30k rather than 40k, and technically slightly earlier than that as it seems, based on Istar and the Primarch Baby's arrival, to be during the birth of Slaanesh and the Men of Iron Rebellion.
The AI he has, amusingly, don't technically qualify as AI in AdMech terms because the systems they are made from are intrinsically built from a substrate that is an extended human mind -- and therefore despite how true AI they are, they aren't Silica Animus, but derived from human consciousness.
This same exact loophole is a huge part of how the AdMech get away with a lot of their own shit, so it's hard for them to shut it down on someone who is a surrogate father figure for a literal Primarch.
Istar WOULD be an issue in 40k, but it being 30k is... less, as there will be any number of Aeldari and Drukhari desperate to swear their souls to her, even if the price is submitting to the Mon-Keigh, right about now.
It also "helps" that this is pre-Horus Heresy.
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is istar an eldar god I just forgot about or are we misspelling some names, and if it is a god can someone explain the character I have apparently added to my own story?
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Misspelling names, because I couldn't be assed to remember the proper one and it had been a while.
It's Isha, the Aeldari goddess of the harvest, fertility, life, healing, and growth. She's also the sole overtly benevolent Aeldari god.
During the Birth of Slaanesh, the Warp Gods consumed the Aeldari gods, with MOST getting devoured by Slaanesh but Khaine going to Khorne and Isha going to Nurgle. (And Cegorach escaping via the Black Library which for whatever reason they couldn't reach, thus the Harlequins.)
Since 30k is when this happened, and Isha is the Aeldari Goddess whose daemon fragments (dryads) would have the nature forest effect, the genre-savvy conclusion is that the hydroponics bay being in the Warp for so long was used by Isha as an escape pod to survive being consumed by Nurgle.
So when a plant-elf shows up in the hydroponics garden... well, she might be the last surviving uncorrupted fragment of Isha, but a fragment of the whole becomes the whole quite readily in these sorts of scenarios.
(Technically Nurgle left Isha intact in the Warp, but only in the context of her becoming a part of his mythos as his caged plague-testing victim for all eternity, which given how Warp Fuckery works makes her a part of him anyhow.)
She's kind of a big deal, if she survives, because her survival gives the Aeldari a benevolent Warp God to consign their souls to in death, rather than going to feed She Who Thirsts. Or being banked in Infinity Circuits to eventually spawn Ynnead the God of Death, in order to wrest control over the Warp Domain/Concept of the Aeldari from Slaanesh.
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oh thank god, I was worried I had written in a different character and would need to rewrite the next interlude,
yeah no its Isha
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So after reading that, is the Boy our man Dorn or is he Perturabo?
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the latter, also the next interlude for the warhammer thing is finished, editing it now. im posting it 12;01 me time
Oh god the Iron Warriors are going to be an insane von neumann machine of industial might if they end up happening still, that and the AdMech are going to flip soooo much shit over The Engineer and his techbase
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Isha was running, fleeing through the warp; a disturbance had shaken the entire realm into an even more dischordent mess, shattering the domains of the twisted gods that now held dominion over the warp.
That same disturbance had broken her cage and distracted Nurgle long enough for her to flee his garden.
Isha knew she did not have long before Nurgle found her, she had escaped before and everytime no matter where she hid she would be found and dragged back to the cage, weaker with each attempt and with the concoctions the dark god fed her.
She just needed to find somewhere to hide, just long enough to recover her strength, but the warp was entirely corrupted and there was nowhere left to hide.
Isha could feel Nurgle daemons nearing her when she discovered the source of the disturbance that had broken her cage, it was an entire world, this was not uncommon though, worlds fell into the warp often enough, and it would not be enough to cause a disturbance with enough force to free her, no what caused it was that this world was untainted by the warp, not just free of corruption, but a true vacuum of any warp presence.
That was unprecedented, even worlds in real space had some reflection in the warp, some minor presence or even a nascent world spirit if the chaos gods did not destroy it before it could form. This planet had nothing.
Isha watched as the dark gods struggled to send their forces down to the planet and watched them rage as only the barest tendrils of their powers managed to reach down into the planet's atmosphere.
Well a planet that seemed to be actively fighting off the warp's corruption seemed like a fine place to hide, even if Nurgle found her he would have trouble mustering the force to pull her from the planet, at least while the planet stayed uncorrupted.
Hopefully that would give her a few hours to regather her strength, hiding her presence as best she could, Isha prepared to entire the planet, and as she breached the atmosphere she was surprised to feel the planet watching her, how could a world spirit form on a world completely devoid of any warp presence?
She felt the planet judge her, and suddenly regretted sending all of her essence into an unknown situation, but even this world spirit deciding to snuff out her weakened spark was preferable to the cage, so she waited as the planet judged her.
She felt the barrier around the planet give around her and slowly pushed her way through, finally feeling the life that was on this world, a fierce ecosystem that was even now destroying the tendrils of corruption that the dark gods snuck through the barrier.
It seemed she wasn't even fully safe here, if one of those tendrils found her, well she didn't actually know what would happen but she doubted it would be good. She needed to find somewhere to hide, preferable with something that could fight off the tendrils without corrupting itself.
The good thing was that seemed to be everything on this world, the bad thing is that there were apparently only 3 true environments on this world, the strongest dwelled in the ocean and greedily devoured all that came near, and the other 2 were roughly equal and competing for control of the planets land, one was of machine and clockwork and the other of flesh and chitin.
She would not be hiding with the ocean's creatures, they felt endless hunger and reminded her too much of the dark gods to truly feel safe near.
The insects were novel, an ever growing horde that fed on corruption and pollution and one that would adapt in time to any threat, as long as the adaptation would not cause corruption itself.
The machine life was the equally interesting though, an interconnected web of souls stretching across the world, similar to the bugs in that regard, but different in that it only had one true nexus, while the insects had one for every hive cluster, and the soul at the center of this cluster was a human one.
The humans soul showed signs of poor mass production, with a bland flavor showing its lack of parents to contribute to its soul, this was bad enough, with a soul like that the man would be lucky to make it to 20 before it broke, but it was worse than that, his soul was splintering, and slowly breaking from stress, Isha saw the man's life, all 2 years he was alive, and saw nothing but fear and danger from it, with only the distant hope of escape keeping the man sane.
The machines souls were merging into and filling the cracks in the man's soul, crudely repairing the damage, and the man might have even been fine, slowly becoming more machine yes but alive and with a soul, but corruption had come to this world and the damage to his soul would make him vulnerable, she could already see some of the machines souls bearing taint before getting subconsciously exorcized from the network of souls by the man, and each machine soul he lost ripped a piece of his own soul out with it.
That made Isha's choice simple then, the insects didn't need her help and the man did, it didn't matter that this world would fall to chaos in a few days, someone here needed help and she could provide it.
It didn't hurt that he had the only source of plant life left on the planet was in the factory.
Isha found that this planet just kept surprising her, first of all it had lasted a week so far without falling to chaos, sure the dark gods could still send portions of their legions thorough, but not in numbers the ecosystem here couldn't handle, and the barrier holding the bulk of the dark gods off was holding strong.
The work to fix the man's soul was simple, she just needed to smooth out the crude fixes the machines' souls had done and ensure that any bits of his soul lost with a machine would not harm him, and she was a goddess of life, she could manage something as simple as that.
Now each machine added to the network of souls would strengthen the man's soul, and that strength would be lost when the machine died, rather than the man losing an actual chunk of his soul. It was as if each machine was another layer of armor around his soul. Unless the largest and most developed machines' souls all fell to corruption the man's soul was safe, And with how the man's soul sought out and purged the corruption from his network it was extremely unlikely that would occur.
It seemed like this world and all the life on it was anathema to corruption of any sort, and thus it shouldn't have surprised her when one of the true anathema's offspring ended up on this world.
Isha did not have any presence outside this world, she barely had any presence outside the man's main base, and so she did not know how or why a child of the anathema ended up on this world, which was still floating in the middle of the warp. But that didn't change the fact that there was in fact a child of the anathema in this world, one with enough of a presence to be considered a demigod.
That meant that either than anthema was dead and had scattered his children, or that chaos had taken the children, or some unseen scenario had played out without her knowledge, she just didn't know, what Isha did know was that if the anthema was alive he would come for his child, and he did not exactly have a high opinion of the eldar pantheon.
That was a problem for later Isha though, right now she was more concerned with gathering enough power to do more than make a few plants grow around her, she used to be able to make a dead world spring to life, now she could barely manage a hedge maze.
Isha had a reckless idea, she needed more power to do anything, and the only way she had to get it was to spread her plants, only she couldn't do that with the bulk of her spirit hiding, so she was going to send small chunks of her own soul into the mans, anywhere there was a sufficient amount of his soul would start showing signs of plant growth, further giving her power, it would only be in the parts of his soul near her, she didn't have enough power to spread everywhere his soul touched, but it would still hasten her recovery.
It was risky in that if she did it poorly she could damage the man's soul, but she was a goddess of life and was intimately familiar with the soul that constantly surrounded hers, there was also the fact that if his soul did fall to the corruption a large portion of hers would too, still as long as she removed her power before he fell she would be fine.
And the planet seemed to be holding on well enough anyway, it probably wouldn't fall the moment she risked herself.
The plan did not backfire, and Isha now had enough presence to manifest small creatures in addition to her plants, which would only help to further grow her power.
The man's soul did not purge her energy like it did with the warps taint, instead it seemed to control the flow of her energy before sending the fragments of her power out around the borders of his outposts, it seems his soul thinks her power is just part of the factory now, and has incorporated it and any power she puts into his soul network is routed out much like the factory pumps out it pollution. Which was not exactly what she had expected to happen, having the man's soul treat her power like pollution from the hydroponics bay was an odd feeling, but it did serve her purposes.
The anthema's spawn has begun spending more time in the hydroponics bay the bulk of her power resides in, seemingly working with one of the larger souls to redesign the bay, which is nice, the sterile and ordered nature of the garden was beginning to annoy her and Isha was uncertain that she could modify it without being noticed.
And if she was modifying the plants and animals to grow better in their new environments, well there was no one here to judge.
She may have underestimated the child's sensitivity, as it seems both the child and the man are aware that she is in the hydroponics bay now, and even suspect her of causing the plant growth, though neither seem overly concerned, the man's soul has known of her power for quite awhile now, and he would have been hostile long before he actually discovered her if he was going to attack her at all, his soul would have made him angry or fearful with the plants she grew, and as it didn't he wouldn't be overtly hostile, suspicious yes but not hostile.
No the boy was more of a surprise, Isha had assumed the Anthema would write his hatred of the warp into the boy's genetic code, she couldn't see all of it, some of it was warded even from her weakened sight, but instead the child just seemed curious.
So when the boy brought in a handcrafted wooden hive, she could do little else but fill it with insects for him.
She even ensured the boy's mind wasn't damaged by being directly exposed to the factories network, at least before it had adapted to him, superhuman or no, getting hit with that much information at once would give anyone a headache, and probably kill a mortal human.
Isha had even done more work on the man's biology, cleaning up the damage he had accumulated and further integrating his augmetics, plus a little work on his soul's subspace pocket, it was the least she could do for the shelter he had provided.
The next few years were calm, with only slowly growing her power to cover the planet and developing an ever more complex ecosystem to take her time, and being an ancient creature of the warp it can be forgiven that she lost track of what the man and boy were up to, she only noticed that the planet was exiting the warp when the barrier around the planet, the one that had held for years, began to fray at the world spirit stopped maintaining it.
She barely managed to hide the bulk of her power by the time the dark gods had broken through the fading wall, and hid as the warp drives that would take the planet out of the warp spun up.
Isha knew that she couldn't get off the planet before it de warped, and with how Slanseshs and Nurgles presences were looking at her, she wasn't sure she wanted to.
Quickly using the plants in the hydroponics bay she began to grow a suitable vessel for her spirit to inhabit, she didn't really have time to make anything fancy, but the body she used to use to walk among the eldar was familiar enough that Isha could make it quickly.
It was only once the de warp had finished that she realized she had forgotten to grow clothes for it, still it was only a few minutes of work to grow a suitable outfit.
While Isha was working on her new clothing she felt the engineers attention fall on her, and could feel as his body got closer to the hydroponics bay, she spent the time till he arrived getting used to having a physical body again, it had been ages since she had incarnated and having limbs was disorienting.
It was disconcerting to be sitting at a table with the engineer, she hadn't ever actually imagined needing to talk to him, not that he was even capable of speech, his makers not having seen the need to give a cloned slave a voice box, and subsequently removing the speech center of his brain to make room for more information not even letting him notice his own lack of a voice either, crude and barbaric work that. But Isha figured the first thing she needed to do was to give him the ability of speech.
Isha reached over the table to touch his neck and was vaguely surprised when the engineer batted her hand away, before remembering that the engineer was someone who had never met her before, and humans were particular about personal space, not that the eldar weren't, but when she met with eldar they tended to know who she was and let her do largely as she pleased.
Figuring that she wouldn't be allowed to touch him without a fight, Isha instead reached out to his soul, to communicate more directly.
The man had plenty of questions and she spent quite a while answering them, eventually leaving her seat and wandering the garden, snacking on a few of the fresh fruits, and after a few hours of conversation the man seemed to run out of steam, leaving with a quick thanks, presumably to continue working on the repairs, the daemons had destroyed quite a bit outside, she was still regrowing her forest herself.
Now Isha just had to figure out what she was going to do now, she could head to the eldar, but chaos would surely be hunting her and she wasn't nearly strong enough to fend them off, a planets worth of plant life was significantly better than her previous state, but nothing compared to before the birth of she who thirsts, so the warp was right out, staying here was an option but the anathema would be coming for his son at some point, if he was alive and considering she could feel his presence blaring across the warp from terra, that was very likely.
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i may or may not have written myself into a corner here, still not exactly happy with this chapter, it feels unfinished.
what modifications would an eldar goddess make to a videogame character, who knows, certainly not me.
i like to imagine that when isha flooded the engineers soul with power it just went, "the fuck is this shit, get it out of here, and dumped it over the wall" it amuses me
what will the emperor do when he finds out one of his sons has been tainted by an eldar warp construct, find out next time, when i update this story.
That same disturbance had broken her cage and distracted Nurgle long enough for her to flee his garden.
Isha knew she did not have long before Nurgle found her, she had escaped before and everytime no matter where she hid she would be found and dragged back to the cage, weaker with each attempt and with the concoctions the dark god fed her.
She just needed to find somewhere to hide, just long enough to recover her strength, but the warp was entirely corrupted and there was nowhere left to hide.
Isha could feel Nurgle daemons nearing her when she discovered the source of the disturbance that had broken her cage, it was an entire world, this was not uncommon though, worlds fell into the warp often enough, and it would not be enough to cause a disturbance with enough force to free her, no what caused it was that this world was untainted by the warp, not just free of corruption, but a true vacuum of any warp presence.
That was unprecedented, even worlds in real space had some reflection in the warp, some minor presence or even a nascent world spirit if the chaos gods did not destroy it before it could form. This planet had nothing.
Isha watched as the dark gods struggled to send their forces down to the planet and watched them rage as only the barest tendrils of their powers managed to reach down into the planet's atmosphere.
Well a planet that seemed to be actively fighting off the warp's corruption seemed like a fine place to hide, even if Nurgle found her he would have trouble mustering the force to pull her from the planet, at least while the planet stayed uncorrupted.
Hopefully that would give her a few hours to regather her strength, hiding her presence as best she could, Isha prepared to entire the planet, and as she breached the atmosphere she was surprised to feel the planet watching her, how could a world spirit form on a world completely devoid of any warp presence?
She felt the planet judge her, and suddenly regretted sending all of her essence into an unknown situation, but even this world spirit deciding to snuff out her weakened spark was preferable to the cage, so she waited as the planet judged her.
She felt the barrier around the planet give around her and slowly pushed her way through, finally feeling the life that was on this world, a fierce ecosystem that was even now destroying the tendrils of corruption that the dark gods snuck through the barrier.
It seemed she wasn't even fully safe here, if one of those tendrils found her, well she didn't actually know what would happen but she doubted it would be good. She needed to find somewhere to hide, preferable with something that could fight off the tendrils without corrupting itself.
The good thing was that seemed to be everything on this world, the bad thing is that there were apparently only 3 true environments on this world, the strongest dwelled in the ocean and greedily devoured all that came near, and the other 2 were roughly equal and competing for control of the planets land, one was of machine and clockwork and the other of flesh and chitin.
She would not be hiding with the ocean's creatures, they felt endless hunger and reminded her too much of the dark gods to truly feel safe near.
The insects were novel, an ever growing horde that fed on corruption and pollution and one that would adapt in time to any threat, as long as the adaptation would not cause corruption itself.
The machine life was the equally interesting though, an interconnected web of souls stretching across the world, similar to the bugs in that regard, but different in that it only had one true nexus, while the insects had one for every hive cluster, and the soul at the center of this cluster was a human one.
The humans soul showed signs of poor mass production, with a bland flavor showing its lack of parents to contribute to its soul, this was bad enough, with a soul like that the man would be lucky to make it to 20 before it broke, but it was worse than that, his soul was splintering, and slowly breaking from stress, Isha saw the man's life, all 2 years he was alive, and saw nothing but fear and danger from it, with only the distant hope of escape keeping the man sane.
The machines souls were merging into and filling the cracks in the man's soul, crudely repairing the damage, and the man might have even been fine, slowly becoming more machine yes but alive and with a soul, but corruption had come to this world and the damage to his soul would make him vulnerable, she could already see some of the machines souls bearing taint before getting subconsciously exorcized from the network of souls by the man, and each machine soul he lost ripped a piece of his own soul out with it.
That made Isha's choice simple then, the insects didn't need her help and the man did, it didn't matter that this world would fall to chaos in a few days, someone here needed help and she could provide it.
It didn't hurt that he had the only source of plant life left on the planet was in the factory.
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Isha found that this planet just kept surprising her, first of all it had lasted a week so far without falling to chaos, sure the dark gods could still send portions of their legions thorough, but not in numbers the ecosystem here couldn't handle, and the barrier holding the bulk of the dark gods off was holding strong.
The work to fix the man's soul was simple, she just needed to smooth out the crude fixes the machines' souls had done and ensure that any bits of his soul lost with a machine would not harm him, and she was a goddess of life, she could manage something as simple as that.
Now each machine added to the network of souls would strengthen the man's soul, and that strength would be lost when the machine died, rather than the man losing an actual chunk of his soul. It was as if each machine was another layer of armor around his soul. Unless the largest and most developed machines' souls all fell to corruption the man's soul was safe, And with how the man's soul sought out and purged the corruption from his network it was extremely unlikely that would occur.
It seemed like this world and all the life on it was anathema to corruption of any sort, and thus it shouldn't have surprised her when one of the true anathema's offspring ended up on this world.
Isha did not have any presence outside this world, she barely had any presence outside the man's main base, and so she did not know how or why a child of the anathema ended up on this world, which was still floating in the middle of the warp. But that didn't change the fact that there was in fact a child of the anathema in this world, one with enough of a presence to be considered a demigod.
That meant that either than anthema was dead and had scattered his children, or that chaos had taken the children, or some unseen scenario had played out without her knowledge, she just didn't know, what Isha did know was that if the anthema was alive he would come for his child, and he did not exactly have a high opinion of the eldar pantheon.
That was a problem for later Isha though, right now she was more concerned with gathering enough power to do more than make a few plants grow around her, she used to be able to make a dead world spring to life, now she could barely manage a hedge maze.
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Isha had a reckless idea, she needed more power to do anything, and the only way she had to get it was to spread her plants, only she couldn't do that with the bulk of her spirit hiding, so she was going to send small chunks of her own soul into the mans, anywhere there was a sufficient amount of his soul would start showing signs of plant growth, further giving her power, it would only be in the parts of his soul near her, she didn't have enough power to spread everywhere his soul touched, but it would still hasten her recovery.
It was risky in that if she did it poorly she could damage the man's soul, but she was a goddess of life and was intimately familiar with the soul that constantly surrounded hers, there was also the fact that if his soul did fall to the corruption a large portion of hers would too, still as long as she removed her power before he fell she would be fine.
And the planet seemed to be holding on well enough anyway, it probably wouldn't fall the moment she risked herself.
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The plan did not backfire, and Isha now had enough presence to manifest small creatures in addition to her plants, which would only help to further grow her power.
The man's soul did not purge her energy like it did with the warps taint, instead it seemed to control the flow of her energy before sending the fragments of her power out around the borders of his outposts, it seems his soul thinks her power is just part of the factory now, and has incorporated it and any power she puts into his soul network is routed out much like the factory pumps out it pollution. Which was not exactly what she had expected to happen, having the man's soul treat her power like pollution from the hydroponics bay was an odd feeling, but it did serve her purposes.
The anthema's spawn has begun spending more time in the hydroponics bay the bulk of her power resides in, seemingly working with one of the larger souls to redesign the bay, which is nice, the sterile and ordered nature of the garden was beginning to annoy her and Isha was uncertain that she could modify it without being noticed.
And if she was modifying the plants and animals to grow better in their new environments, well there was no one here to judge.
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She may have underestimated the child's sensitivity, as it seems both the child and the man are aware that she is in the hydroponics bay now, and even suspect her of causing the plant growth, though neither seem overly concerned, the man's soul has known of her power for quite awhile now, and he would have been hostile long before he actually discovered her if he was going to attack her at all, his soul would have made him angry or fearful with the plants she grew, and as it didn't he wouldn't be overtly hostile, suspicious yes but not hostile.
No the boy was more of a surprise, Isha had assumed the Anthema would write his hatred of the warp into the boy's genetic code, she couldn't see all of it, some of it was warded even from her weakened sight, but instead the child just seemed curious.
So when the boy brought in a handcrafted wooden hive, she could do little else but fill it with insects for him.
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Isha may or may not have insured the boys augmentations smoothly integrated with his biology, and no one was around to tell her it was a waste of her power, she even had enough power to see the entirety of the boys genetic code, it was …… passable, she could have done better and Isha did fine tune his genetics, along with weeding out any little errors that had shown up. Still for a deity that didn't specialize in life the work was outstanding, and the boy's soul was an even better work.She even ensured the boy's mind wasn't damaged by being directly exposed to the factories network, at least before it had adapted to him, superhuman or no, getting hit with that much information at once would give anyone a headache, and probably kill a mortal human.
Isha had even done more work on the man's biology, cleaning up the damage he had accumulated and further integrating his augmetics, plus a little work on his soul's subspace pocket, it was the least she could do for the shelter he had provided.
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The next few years were calm, with only slowly growing her power to cover the planet and developing an ever more complex ecosystem to take her time, and being an ancient creature of the warp it can be forgiven that she lost track of what the man and boy were up to, she only noticed that the planet was exiting the warp when the barrier around the planet, the one that had held for years, began to fray at the world spirit stopped maintaining it.
She barely managed to hide the bulk of her power by the time the dark gods had broken through the fading wall, and hid as the warp drives that would take the planet out of the warp spun up.
Isha knew that she couldn't get off the planet before it de warped, and with how Slanseshs and Nurgles presences were looking at her, she wasn't sure she wanted to.
Quickly using the plants in the hydroponics bay she began to grow a suitable vessel for her spirit to inhabit, she didn't really have time to make anything fancy, but the body she used to use to walk among the eldar was familiar enough that Isha could make it quickly.
It was only once the de warp had finished that she realized she had forgotten to grow clothes for it, still it was only a few minutes of work to grow a suitable outfit.
While Isha was working on her new clothing she felt the engineers attention fall on her, and could feel as his body got closer to the hydroponics bay, she spent the time till he arrived getting used to having a physical body again, it had been ages since she had incarnated and having limbs was disorienting.
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It was disconcerting to be sitting at a table with the engineer, she hadn't ever actually imagined needing to talk to him, not that he was even capable of speech, his makers not having seen the need to give a cloned slave a voice box, and subsequently removing the speech center of his brain to make room for more information not even letting him notice his own lack of a voice either, crude and barbaric work that. But Isha figured the first thing she needed to do was to give him the ability of speech.
Isha reached over the table to touch his neck and was vaguely surprised when the engineer batted her hand away, before remembering that the engineer was someone who had never met her before, and humans were particular about personal space, not that the eldar weren't, but when she met with eldar they tended to know who she was and let her do largely as she pleased.
Figuring that she wouldn't be allowed to touch him without a fight, Isha instead reached out to his soul, to communicate more directly.
The man had plenty of questions and she spent quite a while answering them, eventually leaving her seat and wandering the garden, snacking on a few of the fresh fruits, and after a few hours of conversation the man seemed to run out of steam, leaving with a quick thanks, presumably to continue working on the repairs, the daemons had destroyed quite a bit outside, she was still regrowing her forest herself.
Now Isha just had to figure out what she was going to do now, she could head to the eldar, but chaos would surely be hunting her and she wasn't nearly strong enough to fend them off, a planets worth of plant life was significantly better than her previous state, but nothing compared to before the birth of she who thirsts, so the warp was right out, staying here was an option but the anathema would be coming for his son at some point, if he was alive and considering she could feel his presence blaring across the warp from terra, that was very likely.
AN-
i may or may not have written myself into a corner here, still not exactly happy with this chapter, it feels unfinished.
yes the planet is in fact a null, no i dont know why or how or if that is even possible, I dont care either.
what modifications would an eldar goddess make to a videogame character, who knows, certainly not me.
i like to imagine that when isha flooded the engineers soul with power it just went, "the fuck is this shit, get it out of here, and dumped it over the wall" it amuses me
what will the emperor do when he finds out one of his sons has been tainted by an eldar warp construct, find out next time, when i update this story.
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- Pronouns
- That/Thing
thats a wrap for everything I actually had planned for the 30k universe, besides the engineer drinking with the space wolves, Malcador flipping out about men of iron, and Guilliman and Byzantine bounding over organizing things, and
, I havent decided yet.
but while all that stuff would amuse me, it would also take a while to convencinly write, and id like to get back to the main plot at some point.
maybe the engineer turning into the mechanical version of tyranids
but while all that stuff would amuse me, it would also take a while to convencinly write, and id like to get back to the main plot at some point.
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Isha could up her ante with the planet's worth of life by developing an "Underdark" biosphere, based around deep taproot "plants" extracting thermal energy or sending it down from skyscraper-sized trees (or both), and thus essentially increasing the biodensity of the planet by a factor of ten. Even more if those primary trees and taproot funguses were psyker-varietals tied to her directly.
Point being: vertical farming be where it's at, yo.
Give the Factory some exotic plants that grow metals or oil for The Engineer as a "Thank You" parting gift, and then be off to other realms.
Point being: vertical farming be where it's at, yo.
Give the Factory some exotic plants that grow metals or oil for The Engineer as a "Thank You" parting gift, and then be off to other realms.
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Something else Isha might do is gift them a database of knowledge from general facts and such to stories for entertainment.
info for the poll
- Pronouns
- That/Thing
there is now a poll up, this story has progressed far enough for the focus of the story to shift gears, the next chapter is in fact a main line one, but this log will determine what I will be writing after that.
the engineer now has enough of a character that I feel okay adding him and his factory to new settings, but if you guys dont agree that its ready yet or just dont really want to see that, you can vote in the poll.
none of the options mean that either will stop, it will just change my main focus.
you can also recommend setting and situations for the engineer to end up in, if I don't know the setting it may be awhile before he gets added, or it may not happen.
personally I want to see the engineer in a dungeon core, cultivation world, familiar of zero, danimachi. rwby, worm, pokemon, overlord and a few others.
the engineer now has enough of a character that I feel okay adding him and his factory to new settings, but if you guys dont agree that its ready yet or just dont really want to see that, you can vote in the poll.
none of the options mean that either will stop, it will just change my main focus.
you can also recommend setting and situations for the engineer to end up in, if I don't know the setting it may be awhile before he gets added, or it may not happen.
personally I want to see the engineer in a dungeon core, cultivation world, familiar of zero, danimachi. rwby, worm, pokemon, overlord and a few others.
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- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
I love this story on the transition to 30k and such, and it leaves me wanting to try something like this evebtually, so thanks for the plot bunny!!! And yeah, a null planet that might eventually go blankhood just excites me…and perturabo is going to be intresting when he meets his legion.
Machine/bot speak mandatory when trying to hide true information with thought interfaces and modifying the armor so the marines can have the bots/drones follow them as they learn trye warfare against the fucking bugs…wouldn't surprise me if the biters ended up joining together into a overmind and starts pesudo Zerg swarm fighting the machine god/man…all part of the War worlds plan to have the three factions fight to see where it should develop too…especially if the the emperor has a heart attack about this bizzar situation.
Machine/bot speak mandatory when trying to hide true information with thought interfaces and modifying the armor so the marines can have the bots/drones follow them as they learn trye warfare against the fucking bugs…wouldn't surprise me if the biters ended up joining together into a overmind and starts pesudo Zerg swarm fighting the machine god/man…all part of the War worlds plan to have the three factions fight to see where it should develop too…especially if the the emperor has a heart attack about this bizzar situation.
Palisade roasting his legion
- Pronouns
- That/Thing
perturabo looking at his legions armor and just going off on a rant into the factories network, just 'this armor has no shielding! no true built in weaponry! Takes months to produce! gives no extra limbs! and you cant even control drone swarms with it!' with the minds all agreeing and adding their own comments, and Labyrinthine is calling his legions paint scheme ugly, while on the outside Perturabo's face is just slightly grumpy looking, and he slowly looks at his legion and just goes, "your all getting a damned upgrade".
what do you mean your armor cant tank a nuke, why are you even wearing it then bro
logs 36-40
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- That/Thing
Log #36
Remember those spidertrons I mentioned a while ago, well they had been doing fine, but we lost contact with them awhile ago and they were destroyed, and the bugs that surrounded them couldn't destroy a spidertron even if it didn't fight back, that means something else did, I'm blaming the fish personally, it's about time for something new to try and kill me.
In somewhat good news, I collaborated with the 2 ….. Civilian? Minds and came up with a new sub factory layout, its less efficient in literally every way, and it is expensive to build, but we came up with a fully enclosed factory that scrubs all the air leaving it with water to keep in contaminants from leaving the base, with the waste water itself being distilled to filter it, before I just dump the clean water out the factory.
With this design even a small outpost will need a nuclear reactor to run it, which is somewhat good because the heat makes it easy to distill water, but bad because reactors are expensive, and I still need to figure out what to do with the sludge that gets left over.
In preparation for this I had Labyrinthine expand the nuclear material production, which means I get to do more things with nuclear power, remember how I was having trouble fueling my helicopters? Now they're nucular! Well the design for it is, they haven't actually entered production yet, in fact I designed nuclear versions of all my vehicles and designs, hellishly expensive but if the bugs can really track vehicles through pollution any stealth designs I make need to be able to run cleanly.
Balistraria is currently working on clearing a spot for the new sub factory, and it should be built within the week.
Log #37
The cages over my main base and a few sub bases have been finished, looking up is weird now, as its just kinda dark, still Labyrinthine has begun stringing lights up around there in interesting patterns, kinda starting to look like stars, which is neat, and from outside the factory just looks like a 3 tiered wall that goes up around 100 ft with a big golden bowl on top, and the entire thing is lined with missile pods and turrets, and looks a bit like a golden ant hill with how many drones circle the thing, I am bad at describing things aren't I.
I didn't even mention the gates for the trains and aircraft to get in, or the intricate patterns Labyrinthine has carved onto everything, I'm pretty sure they have spent more time etching the thing then building it.
The green sub base is still under construction, but it's coming along fine and Bulwark has been able to fend off any attacks on the thing while it's being built, even launching a few nukes when one of the largest bug variants began to approach, didn't kill the thing but it did drive it off short a few legs, I tried to send Balistraia to hunt it down but the other bugs were especially driven to defend the big one, so that was a no go.
The air force is coming along well, I have two combat variants of the helicopter in production, bomber and fighter variants, the fighter has 2 rapid fire laser turrets slung under its wings, a large nose cannon, with variable ammunition, and the largest gun is a giant radiation turret, the bomber variant is just missing the radiation turret, with the space being replaced with well bomber equipment, a targeting system, guided bombs and space to hold those bombs.
They have heavy armor and 2 propellers on the end of some kinda stubby wings, and have a top speed of around 130 kph.
They each have a new variant of drone, a high speed sleek variant that rests on top of their wings when not in combat, the fighters carry 10 and the bombers carry 25, the drones are faster than the plans but don't have the battery life to keep up, so they charge on the wings when not in combat and break off to deal with any small bugs trying to swarm the things.
I don't really know how well they will work, but that's why I am building 10 of each before sending them out to Balistraria for live fire testing.
Had another net loss of 2 outposts, and the bugs are pushing harder again so hopefully this airforce can even the scales more in my direction.
Log #38
Apparently Balistraria has a new favorite toy, she ordered the construction of more bombers, but not any fighters, apparently the things are "just weaker flying tanks", and aren't especially useful, she's also increased the fighter drones the bombers carry to its maximum of 40 but I had kinda expected that, she seems to prefer using drones to give larger bugs a death by a million cuts. And an extraordinarily agile and fast drone that can dice up a bug with its laser while still moving at high speeds? Well that's her new favorite toy, they only have 10 minutes of battery though, which annoys her, as most fights last at least an hour now. Still she has added a few of those drones to her drone tanks armaments.
She even suggested using them to drop of small bombs, and I have begun working on a version that can do just that, with how fast they are they can basically put a bomb anywhere on a bug before it can react.
Designing a bomb that can do a significant amount of damage is the more difficult task really, turning them into bombers just means you need to give em a little graspy arm to hold the thing.
The green base was finished just a few days ago, and while the bugs still attack it they don't attack the base as often, seemingly preferring to attack other bases, still the design isn't suitable for larger scale bases, cleaning that much air is just not feasible, but if I can clean up some of the air it might make the bugs a little less aggressive, why they apparently want a food source dead is beyond me though.
With the new flights of bombers destroying or weakening attacking hordes before they reach outposts I have been losing significantly less, and I am up to 20 outposts now, with each outpost I gain I can produce more supplies to build more outposts, so the more I get the faster I get them, which is fairly basic logic.
Log #39
The bugs have begun to incorporate their own anti air around their bases, and have begun producing more of the aerial bugs, which is exactly what I thought would happen, still my planes can fly higher than the aerial bugs and the anti air isn't too dangerous, only taking down a few plans and a few more drones, still keeping an eye on that though.
There are more cloaked bugs running about, the more advanced sensors in the tanks and higher tech turrets can still find them but the less advanced turrets and most of the drones can't see the bugs, still using the camera on the turrets and tanks that can see the minds can figure out where the bugs are, It just takes more processing power, and as time goes on the sensors are getting worse at spotting the bugs, and that's when they are moving.
I'm now needing the expand the train network to deal with all the resources being moved around, the 4 lane train system isn't cutting it anymore, so 8 lanes it is, trying to lay all those tracks in an efficient manner is taking up a fair bit of Byzantines time, besides the dozens of trains there are thousands of courier drones ferrying resources around and around 50 cargo helicopters, though I am building more helicopters, It's just unloading them is annoying, so I'm probably going to redesign them.
Up to 27 outposts now, and only lost 4 since the last log, mainly to stealth bugs or giant regenerating bugs, but the large hordes did take their toll too.
Log #40
Why was I only loading the helicopters, It would have been so much smarter to just have the helicopters carry a large crate and then just drop it off to be unloaded, rather than having an actual cargo bay on the things, it can travel faster and be significantly lighter without a crate and doesn't have to wait to load, it can just pick up a filled crate waiting for it, the new design is going into production, and the old one has ceased production, but still.
The bugs have done something clever again, even if the propellers on the bombers can't be melted or broken, they can be gummed up, the shields wont stop that and having your propellers stop spinning usually cause you to crash, spitting variants of the bugs have even started using this against my drones, even if most drones aren't shielded and acid works fine on them. The only easy solution is a new type of drone that will remove the liquid, I just haven't found a good way to make that work yet, the stuffs surprising durable and hard to remove, still I'm working on that problem, leaning toward wither burning it off, or precisely cutting it with lasers.
The sticky stuff also works to gum up tank wheels, it's just less catosphic to stop driving than it is to fall multiple thousand feet into the ground. And there are repair drones supporting the army which can just cut off and replace the gummed up bits. You can't do that to a planes propeller mid air.
I have hit 30 outposts and only lost 2, both to the giant bugs, Bulwark has just started having the drones move erratically to try and hit the camo bugs which works well enough even if it looks stupid.
Don't currently have a solution beyond nukes for the big bugs, but I have one in the works, nuclear artillery, or an artillery shell with a nuclear payload, if that doesn't do it I'm fresh out of ideas.
AN-
I did not reread this chapter so if there are any mistakes or if something doesn't make sense it is because the engineer wrote the logs down wrong, definitely intentional, it adds flavor and character.
so it seems like you guys want the next chapter to be a crossover, it's not gonna be warhammer 30k, but I will give you guys some options, it can be the engineer going alone into a new setting, it can be character's from a new setting getting thrown in with the engineer, or it can be everyone's favorite character, the entire factory or world getting thrown into a new setting.
I even have an Idea for spidertron 04 getting its own crossover.
Remember those spidertrons I mentioned a while ago, well they had been doing fine, but we lost contact with them awhile ago and they were destroyed, and the bugs that surrounded them couldn't destroy a spidertron even if it didn't fight back, that means something else did, I'm blaming the fish personally, it's about time for something new to try and kill me.
In somewhat good news, I collaborated with the 2 ….. Civilian? Minds and came up with a new sub factory layout, its less efficient in literally every way, and it is expensive to build, but we came up with a fully enclosed factory that scrubs all the air leaving it with water to keep in contaminants from leaving the base, with the waste water itself being distilled to filter it, before I just dump the clean water out the factory.
With this design even a small outpost will need a nuclear reactor to run it, which is somewhat good because the heat makes it easy to distill water, but bad because reactors are expensive, and I still need to figure out what to do with the sludge that gets left over.
In preparation for this I had Labyrinthine expand the nuclear material production, which means I get to do more things with nuclear power, remember how I was having trouble fueling my helicopters? Now they're nucular! Well the design for it is, they haven't actually entered production yet, in fact I designed nuclear versions of all my vehicles and designs, hellishly expensive but if the bugs can really track vehicles through pollution any stealth designs I make need to be able to run cleanly.
Balistraria is currently working on clearing a spot for the new sub factory, and it should be built within the week.
Log #37
The cages over my main base and a few sub bases have been finished, looking up is weird now, as its just kinda dark, still Labyrinthine has begun stringing lights up around there in interesting patterns, kinda starting to look like stars, which is neat, and from outside the factory just looks like a 3 tiered wall that goes up around 100 ft with a big golden bowl on top, and the entire thing is lined with missile pods and turrets, and looks a bit like a golden ant hill with how many drones circle the thing, I am bad at describing things aren't I.
I didn't even mention the gates for the trains and aircraft to get in, or the intricate patterns Labyrinthine has carved onto everything, I'm pretty sure they have spent more time etching the thing then building it.
The green sub base is still under construction, but it's coming along fine and Bulwark has been able to fend off any attacks on the thing while it's being built, even launching a few nukes when one of the largest bug variants began to approach, didn't kill the thing but it did drive it off short a few legs, I tried to send Balistraia to hunt it down but the other bugs were especially driven to defend the big one, so that was a no go.
The air force is coming along well, I have two combat variants of the helicopter in production, bomber and fighter variants, the fighter has 2 rapid fire laser turrets slung under its wings, a large nose cannon, with variable ammunition, and the largest gun is a giant radiation turret, the bomber variant is just missing the radiation turret, with the space being replaced with well bomber equipment, a targeting system, guided bombs and space to hold those bombs.
They have heavy armor and 2 propellers on the end of some kinda stubby wings, and have a top speed of around 130 kph.
They each have a new variant of drone, a high speed sleek variant that rests on top of their wings when not in combat, the fighters carry 10 and the bombers carry 25, the drones are faster than the plans but don't have the battery life to keep up, so they charge on the wings when not in combat and break off to deal with any small bugs trying to swarm the things.
I don't really know how well they will work, but that's why I am building 10 of each before sending them out to Balistraria for live fire testing.
Had another net loss of 2 outposts, and the bugs are pushing harder again so hopefully this airforce can even the scales more in my direction.
Log #38
Apparently Balistraria has a new favorite toy, she ordered the construction of more bombers, but not any fighters, apparently the things are "just weaker flying tanks", and aren't especially useful, she's also increased the fighter drones the bombers carry to its maximum of 40 but I had kinda expected that, she seems to prefer using drones to give larger bugs a death by a million cuts. And an extraordinarily agile and fast drone that can dice up a bug with its laser while still moving at high speeds? Well that's her new favorite toy, they only have 10 minutes of battery though, which annoys her, as most fights last at least an hour now. Still she has added a few of those drones to her drone tanks armaments.
She even suggested using them to drop of small bombs, and I have begun working on a version that can do just that, with how fast they are they can basically put a bomb anywhere on a bug before it can react.
Designing a bomb that can do a significant amount of damage is the more difficult task really, turning them into bombers just means you need to give em a little graspy arm to hold the thing.
The green base was finished just a few days ago, and while the bugs still attack it they don't attack the base as often, seemingly preferring to attack other bases, still the design isn't suitable for larger scale bases, cleaning that much air is just not feasible, but if I can clean up some of the air it might make the bugs a little less aggressive, why they apparently want a food source dead is beyond me though.
With the new flights of bombers destroying or weakening attacking hordes before they reach outposts I have been losing significantly less, and I am up to 20 outposts now, with each outpost I gain I can produce more supplies to build more outposts, so the more I get the faster I get them, which is fairly basic logic.
Log #39
The bugs have begun to incorporate their own anti air around their bases, and have begun producing more of the aerial bugs, which is exactly what I thought would happen, still my planes can fly higher than the aerial bugs and the anti air isn't too dangerous, only taking down a few plans and a few more drones, still keeping an eye on that though.
There are more cloaked bugs running about, the more advanced sensors in the tanks and higher tech turrets can still find them but the less advanced turrets and most of the drones can't see the bugs, still using the camera on the turrets and tanks that can see the minds can figure out where the bugs are, It just takes more processing power, and as time goes on the sensors are getting worse at spotting the bugs, and that's when they are moving.
I'm now needing the expand the train network to deal with all the resources being moved around, the 4 lane train system isn't cutting it anymore, so 8 lanes it is, trying to lay all those tracks in an efficient manner is taking up a fair bit of Byzantines time, besides the dozens of trains there are thousands of courier drones ferrying resources around and around 50 cargo helicopters, though I am building more helicopters, It's just unloading them is annoying, so I'm probably going to redesign them.
Up to 27 outposts now, and only lost 4 since the last log, mainly to stealth bugs or giant regenerating bugs, but the large hordes did take their toll too.
Log #40
Why was I only loading the helicopters, It would have been so much smarter to just have the helicopters carry a large crate and then just drop it off to be unloaded, rather than having an actual cargo bay on the things, it can travel faster and be significantly lighter without a crate and doesn't have to wait to load, it can just pick up a filled crate waiting for it, the new design is going into production, and the old one has ceased production, but still.
The bugs have done something clever again, even if the propellers on the bombers can't be melted or broken, they can be gummed up, the shields wont stop that and having your propellers stop spinning usually cause you to crash, spitting variants of the bugs have even started using this against my drones, even if most drones aren't shielded and acid works fine on them. The only easy solution is a new type of drone that will remove the liquid, I just haven't found a good way to make that work yet, the stuffs surprising durable and hard to remove, still I'm working on that problem, leaning toward wither burning it off, or precisely cutting it with lasers.
The sticky stuff also works to gum up tank wheels, it's just less catosphic to stop driving than it is to fall multiple thousand feet into the ground. And there are repair drones supporting the army which can just cut off and replace the gummed up bits. You can't do that to a planes propeller mid air.
I have hit 30 outposts and only lost 2, both to the giant bugs, Bulwark has just started having the drones move erratically to try and hit the camo bugs which works well enough even if it looks stupid.
Don't currently have a solution beyond nukes for the big bugs, but I have one in the works, nuclear artillery, or an artillery shell with a nuclear payload, if that doesn't do it I'm fresh out of ideas.
AN-
I did not reread this chapter so if there are any mistakes or if something doesn't make sense it is because the engineer wrote the logs down wrong, definitely intentional, it adds flavor and character.
so it seems like you guys want the next chapter to be a crossover, it's not gonna be warhammer 30k, but I will give you guys some options, it can be the engineer going alone into a new setting, it can be character's from a new setting getting thrown in with the engineer, or it can be everyone's favorite character, the entire factory or world getting thrown into a new setting.
I even have an Idea for spidertron 04 getting its own crossover.