Warhammer: In the Name of Nirvana

"Morgan."

"I've always been curious about one thing."

"You made up your mind to counterattack Terra when you first arrived in the Far East?"

Is the answer important to you?

"That's about right. I just want to hear your inner thoughts. As the first person to prepare for the galactic war, your thoughts may help me better understand what the other primarchs are thinking."

[It is tragic in itself that one has to understand his other sons through his daughter.]

【It’s even more pathetic that they still know whether they will stab you with a knife. 】

"Whatever you say."

Facing the laughter coming from not far above her head, Lucy just waved her hand nonchalantly: the light suspender dress was tightly attached to her slender dark body, and the snow-white fabric was stained with the hot steel dust from the forging world.

"He and I don't share the same set of emotional values ​​and worldview anyway."

"In fact, I also dislike my future self thirty thousand years later."

"Especially after watching the memory: it feels like he lost his brain alive."

"It's really going backwards as time goes by."

"Pooh!"

Standing on the towering observation tower, which is a height that even the billowing smoke from the foundry cannot reach, you can overlook the entire industrial hive: Morgan chose to have a heart-to-heart talk with her last [daughter] here. After all, the view here is good, safe and convenient.

If the talks fail accidentally, it would be easy to just throw this little girl out.

So convenient.

The Primarch was thinking about this happily.

Perhaps for Morgan, bringing Lucy back to the Far Eastern frontier was not something she could decide at the beginning, but the Spider Queen was the Spider Queen after all: a year after Lucy arrived on the Aurora, the Primarch had already developed a new complete plan.

More importantly, she has already built a solid foundation for this plan: the most important point is to find out how much of the Emperor's abilities this "Lucy" has inherited without anyone noticing.

If it is about half, then there is nothing to say, just think of it as inviting a living Buddha from Terra: It’s not that Morgan has the confidence to deal with 30% to 40% of the Emperor’s power, but if it exceeds this range, the Primarch will not even be qualified to exchange his life for injuries.

Sad as it may sound, this is the reality of the situation: the gap in power between the Primarch and the Emperor is so vast that even with Morgan at her full strength, her victory would only leave the Lord of Mankind with some permanent problems.

And this is already the highest scoring answer among all the Primarchs.

Even as versatile as Horus, as brave as Angron, as strong as Vulkan, or as unscrupulous as Jonson, as powerful as Ferrus, or as godlike as Sanguinius: none of them pose a real threat to the Emperor.

On the other hand, if a Primarch was truly powerful enough to challenge the Emperor, he would most likely no longer be a Primarch: he might have become a monster, a god who had not yet ascended the throne, or a living embodiment of the energy of the Warp in the physical universe.

Anyway, he will no longer be the Primarch.

A being that can beat other Primarchs into pulp with just a few slaps?

Which Primarch would be so arrogant as to think that this guy is of the same class as himself?

Even Morgan couldn't do that.

After all, she was just a Primarch. Although she was a little stronger than her brothers, she was not on the same level as them.

No matter which Primarch it was, even if it was Guilliman, Lorgar, or Alpharius, as long as they were willing to plan carefully, formulate a secret and completely concealed plan, and add a little bit of luck in the battle, they might be able to chop off the Spider Queen's head.

On the other hand, as long as Morgan is willing to calm down and plan, and completely ignore the consequences of doing so, she can also kill people like Horus or Sanguinius single-handedly. Even if Vulkan is immortal, she is not completely helpless.

But the same thing is unreasonable when it happens to the emperor.

Of course, Morgan could choose to fall, and through the rituals of the Warp gain enough power to oppose or even kill the Emperor, but her Gene-Father could do the same: the Emperor's power after the fall would only be greater than hers.

Rather, it could be said that the Primarch actually had a bold prediction in his mind.

That is: has her genetic father, or has he ever, fallen?

This is appalling, but not impossible if you think about it.

It is said that each Primarch represents a side of the Emperor.

Morgan didn't think about which side of the Emperor she represented: she just hoped it wasn't Lucy's side, but through this slang that everyone agreed on, the Spider Queen could compare some of her brothers and get a glimpse of what her genetic father had done.

Let’s take a simple example: Heydrich.

A mad, obsessive, gifted and unwavering bastard, but no one can deny that he is one of the few Primarchs with the greatest ability and will.

At least in Morgan's mind, if it was just from a military perspective, if it weren't for the previous bad things, she would even be willing to nominate Heydrich as the warmaster. He is more suitable for this position than Jonson and Horus: but only in times of war.

If we project such a guy who deserved to be wiped out onto the Emperor, what kind of conclusion would we draw: Was the Emperor also as paranoid and crazy as Heydrich? He would do anything to achieve his goals, until he was besieged by everyone and deserted by everyone?

It's something he can do.

He used talent and determination like Heydrich to attract countless people to follow him spontaneously, and then made his followers abandon him one by one through his paranoia and madness that might be even more excessive than Heydrich himself.

But then again: this is not something a normal person would do.

Anyone who could do such a thing was either born with that innate quality, like Heydrich who had lost his humanity: but that was definitely not the case with the Emperor. Morgan was sure that he was 100% human from the beginning.

Don't ask her how she knew that.

She already felt a little regretful. Last time, driven by curiosity, she agreed to have a soul resonance with Lucy and peek into the early history of the Emperor in Lucy's mind.

Indeed, seeing Holy Terra as it was thirty thousand years ago was well worth the trip.

But seeing the several-year-old emperor walking his bird naked has become an indelible shadow in Morgan's mind.

【……】

Well, since it is not congenital.

So what could cause a normal human being to become a bastard like Heydrich?

Lived too long?

Not really: Lucy was just playing around a bit, and her fickleness just proved that ordinary immortals wouldn't be too obsessed with anything, which was completely opposite to Heydrich.

Since it is not eternal life...

So: Subspace?

The paranoia and madness caused by his involvement with the Warp even developed his personality to an inhuman level: this dark history remained in the Emperor's mind, and through constant mapping and distortion, it was realized in the opposite way in Heydrich?

There is some truth to it.

Besides, don't forget that Magnus and Mortarion are also children of the Emperor.

One of them had an almost naive delusion about the energy of the Warp, while the other practiced witchcraft in the name of science: if the Emperor had done something similar in his youth, Morgan himself would not have been surprised.

Think about it.

A gifted and determined human lord can attract a large number of followers through his abilities and charm, and then on the road ahead, out of curiosity or scientific research purposes, he goes deep into the realm of the warp, and unknowingly sinks deeper and deeper into it, until his entire body is gradually contaminated by the warp, becoming unimaginably irritable and paranoid.

At this point, it is understandable why an Immortal like Orpesson would choose to leave the Emperor's side: just as Morgan would not hesitate to kill Heydrich even if he admired him.

But the question arises, the Emperor has already obtained such powerful strength through transactions with the Warp, which proves that he was definitely trapped very deeply at the beginning: then how did the Lord of Mankind escape?

This is exactly what Morgan couldn't understand.

Unless her genetic father really obtained his power through some other means.

But: Is it possible?

Morgan still wanted to believe that the Emperor was once only one step away from becoming a demon.

Just to gain power: this is indeed what the Lord of Mankind can do.

Just as the Primarchs were able to surrender to the Warp in exchange for the power to confront the Lord of Mankind head-on: the voices in Morgan's head had been tempting her with similar proposals for years.

One of the reasons why the Lord of Mankind was so frank with his daughter was because of the existence of these voices: the Tamperer and the Prince of Pleasure were very interested in exposing all the lies that the Emperor told Morgan, and the Lord of Mankind had known this for a long time.

Therefore, the Emperor would often maintain an inhuman state in front of Morgan: being straightforward and shameless is always more likable than the hypocrisy that is doomed to be exposed, and the Spider Queen is not someone who cares about these superficial efforts.

However, this intermittent inhuman state also made the Spider Queen more convinced of the "Emperor's Theory of Ascension to Demon" in her heart.

In other words, the Lord of Mankind was once deeply involved in the Warp ritual, and in a process that was no different from ascending to a demon, he gained the powerful strength he possesses today. However, his Warp ritual was ultimately not completed.

Therefore, the Emperor did not become a being in the Warp, because he only completed part of the ritual, and therefore only mastered part of the power of the ritual: but this power was enough to ensure that the Lord of Mankind would be invincible in the entire real universe.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

There were a few times when Morgan even wanted to just blurt out this conclusion and slam it in Lucy's face, asking her to explain it to him clearly: If the Emperor really had a way to escape the corruption of the Warp, but had been hiding it from Morgan.

【……】

Then let the galaxy burn!

But not now: at least not when she had figured out Lucy's strength.

So the Primarch endured for a year, and watched carefully for another year.

Fortunately, the Lord of Mankind made a wise decision and did not choose to invest too much power in this clone: ​​Lucy could easily deal with the Astartes, but the Primarch could also deal with her with a wave of his hand.

After confirming this, Morgan felt more confident.

This confidence is reflected in her willingness to bring Lucy to a place like the Triple Zone, to show her the true power of the Far Eastern Frontier, to tell her that she possesses the ability to turn the tide in the galaxy in the physical universe.

Morgan intended to lay some groundwork: She was really curious about what kind of entanglement the Emperor had with the Warp when he was young?

I also really want to know: how did her genetic father escape?

In the Primarch's expectation, she would probably get the answer she wanted on Larlan, the home planet of the thorny alien civilization.

The reason is very simple: Morgan is neither a fool nor a blind person. When the information about Ciarán and Larlan was placed on her desk, the Primarch was already certain of it.

The pursuit of perfection and self-transformation? With such advanced technological power, how can they remain unknown? And in the core area of ​​the city stands a tall temple?

Who would believe that behind these guys there isn't a god known for pleasure.

Although he knew that the so-called attack on the Assassins was most likely a trap set by Slaanesh, Morgan still had reasons to lead the expedition himself: Larlan's geographical location was too dangerous. After learning that they had the support of gods, it was even more impossible for Morgan to let them live.

In contrast, the Primarch took Lucy with him without hesitation, bringing her most respectable father into the trap of Slaanesh: although Lucy was not strong enough, the Primarch believed that she had a way to fight against the Warp.

This was not just her wishful thinking: Lucy's hint was almost written on her face, and Morgan naturally had no reason to refuse such a good thing.

Just like she had no reason to leave Lucy out while she visited the Triple Zone.

[After all, I don’t have anything shameful here. 】

The Spider Queen made a smug promise as they stood together, looking out at the shadow of the massive ship in the distance.

[The Mountain Array Killer was a secret that he and Makado had known for a long time. 】

[The new fighters and Centurions also originate from technology gifted by the Emperor himself. 】

[As for the Titan Foundry: It was you who asked me to have at least as many Titans as Guilliman's eight Titan Legions. 】

[Apart from this, is there anything more outrageous in Morgan’s secret treasure trove? 】

【No! 】

The Spider Queen smiled and crossed out her "very cute" in her mind.

Just this: her damned dad must never know.

At least until she knew what the relationship between the Imperium and the Warp was.