Chapter 12 Imperial Frontier: Victoria Hive

Hive worlds and empires are also the largest and most chaotic human settlements in the history of human civilization. Each empire galaxy has only one hive world as the capital of the galaxy. This is the core of empire administration, justice, religion, and economic production.

Almost all Imperial hives can trace back thousands of years of history. When the planet ushered in the first colonial ship and the Adeptus Mechanicus built the first plasma reactor, the construction of a hive city was on the agenda.

, finally ushered in this behemoth several centuries later.

Some hive cities even have a history that is older than the empire. Long before the Dark Age of Technology and the Age of Strife, these colonial cities that originated from the earliest colonial era of mankind had already existed among the stars like stars.

Countless cities, large and small, were eventually connected into one, and the land was filled with endless buildings. Towering spiers and gorgeous upper-level buildings rushed to the top of the sky under the overlapping of countless buildings and creations, and beneath the surface of the earth.

, the dense urban structure group has been built layer by layer, advancing layer by layer like a honeycomb, reaching the deepest part of the earth's core.

This is a great masterpiece of human civilization. It symbolizes the complete conquest of a planet by humans, and also symbolizes the destruction of a planet. When such a giant hive is completed, it usually means that all the resources of the planet have been exhausted.

The uncontrolled breeding of a huge population eventually overwhelmed the planet's ecology. The endless descendants of humans and their buildings and machines swallowed everything up, turning everything into part of the ever-expanding city.

In the end, this planet can no longer create natural resources. The only resource it can provide is human resources. Endless human resources. Hundreds of billions of people are sent to other worlds in the galaxy, which will

The resources developed and excavated from those worlds are transported here through the giant orbital star port surrounding the planet's equator above the hive city, and are finally processed and cast in the factory that extends to the end of the earth.

Vito was sitting in the cockpit. He looked at the hive city below through the thick glass of the shuttle. The shuttle plummeted from low-Earth orbit. When he broke through the storm in the stratosphere, he came here and saw this behemoth directly.

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Thick smoke and toxic waste gas are rising from the surface. Even the sky has turned into a sickly gray-green due to the emissions from the Mechanicum factories. The forests and mountains have disappeared for generations, and the ocean cannot even glimpse its existence.

Mark of.

Vito operated the driving joystick, and the streamlined and slender shuttle flew among the magnificent buildings. They plummeted and entered the hive city from beneath the gorgeous buildings on the top floors of the city.

Vito looked around, and the surrounding space was completely covered with overlapping large and small buildings, arranged layer after layer, connected by sky platforms and roads.

The sun's rays cannot reach here. All lighting comes from various shop lights, street lamps and passing vehicles. The colorful lights blend together, just like a strange dream in an illusion.

"Ah, this kind of hive city again." Vito said with emotion. He has been to many hive city worlds. To be honest, not all hive cities are so depressing and uneasy.

Vito turned the button on the dashboard with his finger. After pressing several buttons in succession, the vector nozzle began to rotate. The shuttle slowly landed driven by the violent blue flames, and landed smoothly with the violent recoil airflow.

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The sturdy landing gear slowly lifted the hull, allowing this beautiful interstellar shuttle to land on the platform, and the vector jet gradually cooled down.

Vito walked out from behind the hatch below and stood on the platform deck. The entire platform began to move, and the heavy mechanical structure pulled the forward landing pad back to the main building in front.

The surface starport is the first stop for all non-aristocratic dignitaries after arriving on this planet, and Vito is certainly no exception.

Vito looked to one side, and a heavy transport ship as huge as a tall building also landed on the giant deck. Cooling gas and negative pressure gas sprayed out from the hull, and billowing white mist engulfed everything around it.

Vito straightened his collar and looked forward. The parking deck was steadily pulled into the star port building. The solid reinforced concrete structure was like a bunker, rising up around it and turning into a barrier, isolating the planet-level city.

outside.

In the land star port, under the dome supported by huge metal brackets, the golden Imperial Sky Eagle hangs high in the air. Under it, countless large and small ships are docked everywhere. Travelers, rogue traders and cargo spacecraft workers come here.

Coming and going, they walked under the giant spaceships. The noise and the rumble of the power engines formed the main theme here.

"Purpose of visit." A lazy administrator came up. He was holding a fortune-telling tablet and pointing on the screen with a sensor pen while mumbling indistinctly. Fortunately, Vito could listen.

Find out what he is talking about.

"Tourism, visitors and travel." Vito said with a smile, and the administrator rolled his eyes, "Who would come to this damn place to travel and sightsee?" "Then what do you think should be filled in?" "I don't care, just visiting for personal matters.

Well, 2,000 Imperial Sky Eagle Coins as downtime and administrative expenses."

As the young and lazy administrator spoke, a servo skull flew over, and the skull floated in front of Vito, showing a card slot in front of his eyes.

Vito took out a black card from his arms, inserted it casually, pulled it out after a moment, and the servo skull returned to the administrator and made a mechanical sound of arrival, "Payment completed, landing allowed."

The skull flew away, perhaps to collect some money, but the administrator wrote and drew on the tablet without any care, "Name, name of the ship."

Vito smiled and looked at the ship exit at the end of the huge star port. There was a ship spraying slow flames and sliding into the runway. Judging from its logo, it seemed to be the Owen-4 world that he had visited before.

transport ship.

On the side of the runway of the ship, there are several large cargo containers piled up. The crew is negotiating with a few bald locals. Each of them has a snake tattooed on their arm. It looks very unique.

snakes, but Vito was sure that all local native species had become extinct.

But it seems that the transaction is going very smoothly. They have successfully reached a deal. These local gang members are already paying. The star port guards on the side seem to be blind and turn a blind eye to this. But Vito can be sure that they are not blind.

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Vito shook his head slightly, as if he was thinking about something, but the administrator cursed impatiently, "Hey! Idiot, name! Are you going to let me spend the whole day here?"

"Vito, Vito Constantine, this beauty is called Aquila, take care of her." Vito said and took the registration form handed over by the administrator. The latter shrugged helplessly, "We will, go now.

Just do whatever you want."

"Hey, buddy, ask a question." "Your Majesty, please ask, hurry up." The administrator stopped and yelled extremely irritably, while Vito still had a smile on his face and pointed to the distance.

Trading site.

"Where are those local gang members, what's the name of their gang?" The administrator looked over, then twitched his eyebrows, "The Pious Society, I advise you not to get close to them, they are religious lunatics." "Religion? State religion?

"Yes, yes, but they are crazier than the lunatics in the church. In short, you can stay as far away from them as you want."

"I'm very curious, friend, in the chaos of Xia nest, why is the state religion so developed?" The administrator yelled irritably, waving his fingers, "Who are you? Scholar? Go ask those missionaries, don't

Come and bother me."

He walked away impatiently, with an extremely arrogant and perfunctory attitude. Vito smiled jokingly and looked at the young administrator with his hands on his hips as he walked away. He was curious, if he knew that he was facing a trial with his attitude just now.

Officer, how will you feel afterward?

Vito shrugged, but he was lucky that he was not one of those neurotic colleagues, so the young man continued to have an arrogant attitude until one day he was taught a lesson by some irritable captain.

Vito touched his chin, looked thoughtfully at the Imperial Skyhawk above his head, patted the blaster on his waist and walked towards the exit of the star port.
Chapter completed!