After seeing that the Watch Castle owner also recognized it, the rest of the Killing Squad immediately clinked their glasses and then drank the Bergman beer from the Federation of Watan. Soshyan's taste was indeed correct. The taste of this wine was more in line with the taste of Astarte - mellow and a little metallic texture.
"Captain Soshiyang, is there any?"
Seeing Ullison looking like he hadn't drunk enough, Soshyang smiled slightly and turned around and pointed out outside the cabin.
“Of course there is.”
There was a tall metal wine can placed there, and two iron-borns stood beside him. Seeing this, Ullison immediately walked out with his eyes shining, and regardless of the iron-borns, he took a big cup by himself.
Soshiyan also took a cup from the iron family at this time, and then walked to Viderian.
"Master, I want to talk to you privately, is it convenient?"
The other party nodded.
"certainly."
The two then walked out of the gunboat with their glasses. Viderian first went to another gunboat and told the Death Watchmen that they could drink some short beer before coming to a secluded corner of the flight deck with Soshyan.
"...I had observed the navigation mode and technology of the Luncan on the bridge before. To be honest, I personally think that compared to the unstable navigation methods of the empire, short people are indeed leading in this regard. Viderian Castle Lord, do you think these technological empires should be introduced?"
After hearing Soshiyan's words, Viderian remained silent for a moment and said slowly:
"Death Watch is not a real collective organization. The commander of Soshyan, I really have nothing to say about the technological development of the empire."
"But I also know that Death Watch is relatively less conservative and often uses... some non-imperial techniques, just chatting, you don't need to care."
Viderian raised his head and looked at the Iron Man who was guarding the metal wine can not far away.
"Captain of Soshiyang, you have a good relationship with the short man?"
"During the Great Vortex Expedition, I had cooperated with them, of course, only commercial. They were pure merchants and only spoke for interests."
"I have been looking up information about short people before, but the Silent Fortress does not have much short people information."
When Soshi raised his brow when he heard the other party say this.
"Oh? Are you interested in them too?"
"interested in."
"I have always regretted that the Empire did not know this neighbor. It is beneficial to the Empire to increase communication and cooperation with them, and I have also been trying to understand their society, culture, science and technology."
Vidrian withdrew his gaze and looked at Soshiyan, raised his glass, Soshiyan then raised his glass, and the two of them touched lightly, then Vidrian took a sip and asked:
“Why do you want to know them?”
Soshiyang blinked.
"This can increase the opportunity to cooperate with them, the depth of cooperation, and even get assistance from each other and obtain technology useful to the empire."
"IMHO, you really don't look like an Astate."
"Well...why did the lord say this?"
"When we go to understand a group of aliens, the only goal is to destroy them, and that's my only motivation to understand them."
Upon hearing this, Soshiyang remained silent for a long time, and then took a sip of Bergman beer.
"Brother Vidrian, don't you think there are too many enemies of the Empire now?"
A subtle expression appeared on Vidrian's serious face and replied:
"We are soldiers and weapons. The only thing we need to consider is two things: where the enemy is, how to destroy them, and as for defining who is the enemy, it does not fall within our responsibilities."
Soshiyan squeezed out a slightly reluctant smile.
"By the way, the Mechanical Society seems to have a saying, the possibility that short man and humans have the same origin? Perhaps they are really a kind of sub-human..."
Vidrian shook his head.
"Brother Soshiyang, I don't know if you have heard of the tausage."
"Of course I've heard it."
"The Titanium is a group of aliens who are good at bewitching people's hearts. Many mortals have been bewitched by them and defected to the realm of the Titanium, or those occupied worlds are bewitched by them and choose to join the aliens. So do you think they and their descendants are still humans?"
"Well..."
"It's just that the standard for defining aliens is not just physiological. Even if short people really had an ancestor with humans, now they deny empires, deny emperors, deny all beliefs and dogmas that the empires rely on, and even deny that empires are the only natural and legal regime of human beings, and they run a set of social systems and cultures that are completely different from the empire. So is it still important to be physically alien? The great expeditions in the past destroyed not only aliens, but also those regimes that are unwilling to join the empire and integrate into the empire. For us, opposing humans is the enemy, opposing empire is also the enemy, and those who do not surrender to the empire are the enemy. There is no such difference between enemies and enemies."
"But their technology has a lot in common with the empire, and the benefits of cooperation are far greater than hostility."
"If their technology can be used by the Empire, then they should be destroyed and plundered everything the Empire needs from their bodies and ruins. This is the rule that the Empire operates for ten thousand years. We are not only guardians, but also conquerors. I do not deny that non-violent means are applicable in some occasions, but the Emperor granted us eternal duties and the oath we have made, we must never forget that we will slaughter all enemies of mankind and will not die for the benefit of the Empire."
Then Viderian sighed lightly and drank all the things in the cup.
"...so I'll say that, brother Soshyan, you really don't look like an Astate... The wine tastes great, my first thought is to kill them all, take away these brewing techniques, make them only belong to the Empire, and all you do is ask them to give some more."
Soshyan's heart was also heavy at this time. He actually wanted to find Vidrian to open a hole in Death Watch, and through the relationship between Death Watch and the Alien Inquisition, we can see if we can determine the tone of "subman" for short people within the Alien Inquisition, so that he can easily introduce some short people's technologies into the empire - even if it can just slightly promote the technological progress of the empire, which is already a Dead Sea, is good.
But Vidrian told Soshyan a very cruel truth. Most of his thoughts in the empire are actually aliens among aliens, not to mention Astarte. Perhaps in many occasions, no one will say it just because of his prestige and identity.
However, when it comes to pushing things at the imperial level, these resistances are very obvious.
Chapter completed!