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Chapter 173: Nest City Raiders

After the death of the Lord Hunter of the Thorndike family, Fu Qinghai carefully examined the shield fixed on his left arm.

Mirror Shield, a rare personal shield black technology, is a product from the Vanshall family of the Necromunda hive. Its core components are a kinetic energy converter and a power charging battery. The specific principle is unknown. Its function is to absorb energy attacks and kinetic energy and convert them into its own energy attacks.

This is the analysis from "Tony Stark's Electronic Soul Backup".

However, actual combat tests have shown that the absorption limit is too low. Moreover, just like all products produced by the Fanshaul family's incomplete STC system, the mirror shield will have strong radiation when in operation, far exceeding the background radiation of the bottom nest. "Tony Stark's Electronic Soul Backup" has determined that the shield is completely damaged and has no value for repair.

Yes, as a reincarnation, Fu Qinghai knew a secret that many people in the Necromunda hive did not know - a certain noble family hid a set of incomplete STC and did not hand it over to the Human Empire and the Mechanicus.

As soon as Fu Qinghai saw the mirror shield, he immediately thought of the Vanshall family of the Necromunda hive city. In his previous life, Fu Qinghai had never even played "Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War", but he had played "Necromunda: Hive War".

Because everyone has played a lot of real-time strategy games, but they have rarely seen interesting things like the nest city, especially the gang members of the killer with big butts and hot girls in the lower nest.

If it was the incomplete STC system hidden by the Fan Shaoer family, Fu Qinghai might still be a little interested. But if it was a counterfeit product produced by the incomplete STC system, then forget it.

Fu Qinghai curled his lips.

We are now people who have a few technological lines in our hands. We are not penniless. If we encounter black technology again, we have to do some research and analysis. Black technology with too many side effects will not be so attractive.

In the setting of the Necromunda hive, the short-lived Vanshall family members have to live in life support suits for their entire lives due to the long-term companionship of the incomplete STC system and the effects of severe radiation. Some elderly family members will even die on the spot as soon as they leave the life support suits.

An incomplete set of STCs can determine the rise and fall of a thousand-year-old family in a hive city. This is the power of the "Standard Construction Template (STC)" left over from the Dark Technology Age.

Fu Qinghai put down the mirror shield in his hand, stood up, put the Blue Blade back into his waist, clapped his hands, and said,

"Come and collect the bodies."

Several members of the Spartan gang quickly rushed out of the shed, stripped the nobleman lying on the ground naked, and then dragged the body away skillfully and swiftly.

For these Downhive gang members, that power sword alone is already a windfall, as power weapons are so expensive that not everyone can afford one, even in the Space Marine Legion.

However, the Thorndike family crest engraved on the sword may bring fatal disaster to the holder.

But it doesn't matter, Fu Qinghai no longer intends to keep this family existing.

This hunting activity was massive. In order to seize the position of planetary governor, the five major families almost unanimously adopted the human wave tactic, mobilizing the young collateral descendants in the family, hastily armed them, and sent them all to the bottom nest.

Before meeting this young noble from the Thorndike family, Fu Qinghai had already met five groups of similar noble children.

As Koshvito said, their equipment is very advanced, and black technologies such as "mirror shield" are not uncommon, but their combat awareness and combat skills are very poor.

Fu Qinghai subdued them at almost no cost.

Through the torture and interrogation of these noble children, Fu Qinghai learned the details about the five major families of the Schwerin Hive City. At the same time, without alerting the nobles at the top of the tower, he gained a more comprehensive understanding of the world of the Schwerin Hive City.

The development of a planet into a hive city does not happen overnight, but requires tens of thousands of years of long evolution... or a process of degeneration. In the 40K era, there were countless hive worlds in the Empire, but all the worlds that became hive cities or showed signs of hiveization at the 31K time point were ancient hive cities left over from the Dark Age of Technology. The history of these hive cities may be longer than that of the Human Empire.

This was confirmed by the giant machines that Fu Qinghai saw still running on the way from the bottom nest to the lower nest.

The Schwerin hive is such a hive.

Before the expeditionary fleet discovered this hive world and took it under its rule, there was already an established ruling structure in the area. The arrival of the Space Marine Legion broke this structure, but thanks to the fact that the ruling class at the time quickly surrendered to the Human Empire and expressed their allegiance, this "break" was not very thorough.

While the classic urban structure and social classes of the spire, upper nest, lower nest and bottom nest are basically fixed and unchanged, the specific composition of the ruling class in each hive world is actually in constant dynamic change. In other words, the so-called "Five Major Families of the Schwerin Hive" are not set in stone. Some families disappear in the bloody struggle, and some families rise up again and again.

The latter replaced the former's ecological niche in the hive's food chain, which was big news in the hive, but also normal.

The biggest change and the biggest requirement of the Terran government for the Schwerin Hive is the tithe, and the rest is ignored. On the other hand, in order to meet the tithe requirement and avoid the wrath of the Imperial Fleet due to incomplete tax payment, the Schwerin Hive has gradually developed into the current political structure:

The Sommerfeld family was the first family in Schwerin hive to express their submission and loyalty to the expeditionary fleet. They controlled the Electrical Union, Plumbing Union and Gas Union among the eight merchant guilds in Schwerin hive. Lighting, drinking water and air, it can be said that most of the lifelines of the main hive city were under their control. Because of their merit in being the first to surrender, they were awarded the position of planetary governor by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior.

The Bentham family, a family in the Schwerin hive that has mastered the biochemical transformation technology and prosthetic transformation technology, controls the Corpse Guild and the Slave Guild. The former is responsible for the recycling of corpses in the hive, that is, the manufacture of corpse starch, while the latter is responsible for the slave trade, providing necessary consumables to mines and factories, and providing private customization services to high-end customers.

Bounty hunters and gang members in the hive who want to become stronger have to go to the Bentham family's operating room for transformation. However, the Bentham family's technology also has many flaws. Some drugs can make people's canine teeth longer and infect them with the habit of liking to eat raw human flesh.

The Kronin family is in charge of the Promethium Union and the Iron Union. The former is responsible for extracting millennium methane from the ancient bottom nest wastewater to produce promethium. The latter is responsible for prospecting and mining. Whether it is digging for usable resources in the waste slag of the wasteland or continuing to destroy the few natural environments on this planet, it is all the function of the Miners' Union.

The Kroning family has the largest private armed forces in the Schwerin hive, a large mining protection team, and an endless supply of flamethrowers. There is a lot of friction between them and the Sommerfeld family, because the Electricians and Promethium Unions are competitors. Whether it is energy or lighting, the power of the two is growing and declining, which determines whether the residents of the hive will mainly use fire or electricity for a period of time.

The Thorndike family was once a group of wandering traders. The rare blood of the Navigator family flows in the veins of the Thorndike family. After generations of inbreeding, a Navigator might be born. Relying on this, and the license issued by the expedition fleet, the Thorndike family became wandering traders in this star region. Some people speculate that their ancestors might be a deceived or rebellious family in a Navigator family, and the Navigator bloodline degenerated and became what it is today.

The Thorndike family has not produced a navigator for hundreds of years, but the privateering fleet in their hands and the spaceport they control are still important guarantees for the Schwerin hive's external communication.

The outbreak of the Horus Heresy led to a depression in traveling trade, and the Thorndike family returned to the Schwerin hive and became sedentary merchants. Through a series of bloody battles and political compromises, they snatched control of the Money Union from the Sommerfeld family and firmly grasped the power of currency and trade routes in their hands.

Unlike the nouveau riche who live at the top of the hive, the Thorndike family, who own ships, travel around the star field and have broad horizons. In peacetime, they can travel to various worlds within the empire and have many rare things in their hands. It was they who brought back new ways of playing such as "hunting dukes" from the Necromunda hive.

At the same time, they also brought back drugs such as reflective tablets and necromancy.

Drug trafficking is a serious crime under Imperial law and is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, especially these two types of drugs that are related to the subspace. Even the Inquisition can intervene, but this is not the reason why Fu Qinghai sentenced him to death.

The main reason is that, as a space warrior, Fu Qinghai doesn't like the feeling of having a warship parked in the space orbit and able to launch orbital bombardment on him at any time. This feeling makes him feel uneasy and restless. Even if the Thorndike family does not engage in these little tricks of smuggling drugs, Fu Qinghai will find a way to control the frigate.

The Luck, a Sword-class frigate that was eliminated from the expedition fleet and has been repaired many times, is anchored at the spaceport of the Schwerin hive city.

The Thorndike family's greatest support.

Although the Sword-class frigate is larger than the Broadblade-class frigate, which is the Shortsword that Fu Qinghai once rode (1.6 kilometers long versus 1.4 kilometers long), it is still a frigate after all. If Fu Qinghai wants to carry out orbital bombing of a planet with such weak firepower, he may not be able to be bombed even if he lies on the ground for ten years.

But Fu Qinghai and Koshvito were both people who believed in air supremacy. They were easy to talk to with warships in hand, and they could attack or retreat. After getting the intelligence about the Thorndike family, the plan to seize the frigate HMS Luck was put on the agenda.

The above is the basic information of the four major families except the Zedu family.

Looking at the political structure of the Schwerin Hive, one can see that unlike the stable power structure of the Necromunda Hive with one superpower and many strong powers, the Hemar family is the only one in power, and the other families are all vassals of the Hemar family. There is no particularly obvious difference in strength between the five major families in the Schwerin Hive, and everyone is about the same. This structure is the most unstable. Even if Fu Qinghai and Koshvitto did not come to stir up the muddy water, the five major families would fight sooner or later.

Fu Qinghai returned to the simple shack and looked at the two men and one woman who were tied up tightly and kneeling side by side on the ground. He ordered Hulda to tear the seals on their mouths and asked,

"Why don't I see anyone from the Zedu family?"

Fu Qinghai has used the mutant girl to conduct a sting operation in the ruins and has captured five groups of noble hunters. The others have been executed, but these three are noble children of the Sommerfeld family and have been spared.

One of the women answered,

"Respected Lord Astarte, before the Lord Hunt was about to start, the Zeddu family suddenly announced that they would withdraw from this Lord Hunt and give up the fight for the position of Planetary Governor."

Huh?

Fu Qinghai was stunned.

He actually voluntarily gave up the tempting position of governor?

What's going on?

Seeing the Space Marine in front of him lowering his head and not speaking, as if he was lost in thought, one of the men interrupted and said:

"My Lord, I guess they are trying to avoid suspicion."

"Avoid suspicion?" Fu Qinghai raised his head. "What do you mean?"

The young man quickly explained,

"The planetary governor who died unexpectedly, Odysseus Sommerfeld, was a member of our family. When the crime occurred, we immediately conducted an on-site inspection of the governor's residence. Although we did not find out the cause of death, the elders in the family believed that it was likely related to the psychic."

He took a breath and continued:

"Although the Zedu family is the weakest among the five major families, they manage the great library of the Schwerin hive. The nobles at the top of the spire all know that they have close dealings with illegal psykers in private, but there is no evidence."

"This time, when we announced our speculation on the cause of death of the planetary governor, many people pointed the finger at the Zedu family, believing that they were the ones who killed the governor. I think they suddenly announced their withdrawal from the hunting lord and gave up the competition for the purpose of avoiding suspicion."

Is that so...

Fu Qinghai did not comment on the young man's inference, but just listened to it.

Fu Qinghai sat in front of the three people with his arms and legs spread out, tapping his knees rhythmically with his fingers. The huge, armored body of the Space Marine was filled with a suffocating sense of oppression.

The silent atmosphere solidified the dirty air of the bottom nest. After waiting for a long time, seeing that Fu Qinghai still didn't speak, another boy who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old moved his numb knees, mustered up the courage to raise his head, carefully looked at Fu Qinghai's mask, and stammered:

"Ah...Lord Astartes, we are all legal citizens of the Empire. I don't know why you...why you imprisoned us."

Legal citizens? Then the residents of the bottom nest are also legal citizens. Are your actions as hunters legal?

Fu Qinghai was too lazy to argue with these stupid nobles. Although the empire has laws, as long as the tithes are paid on time and in the right amount, the empire allows the planetary governor to interpret the imperial laws in any way he likes. It is useless to argue with the nobles of the nest.

He snorted disdainfully and said,

"Then do you know why I came to the Schwerin Hive?"

After saying that, he turned his head away, no longer paying attention to the three people, and concentrated on thinking about the next steps.

As a result, the woman kneeling in the middle suddenly spoke:

"I know, sir."

You know?

Fu Qinghai looked at her in surprise.

I was inexplicably teleported from the webway node. Even I don't know why I came here, so why do you know?

The helmet covered Fu Qinghai's expression. The three of them didn't know what he was thinking at the moment. The woman's hands were tied behind her back. She looked at Fu Qinghai steadily and said:

"Yes, my lord, I know why you came to the Schwerin Hive."

"oh?"

Fu Qinghai said with a smile: "Then tell me?"

The woman said with certainty,

"You are a Space Marine loyal to the Emperor."

"Really? Go on."

"You came to the Schwerin Hive this time to recapture this place."

"Why use the word 'recapture'?"

"Because the astropaths in the Great Library tell us that the Warmaster has won."

What?

Fu Qinghai opened his eyes wide in surprise.

No wonder, no wonder the Schwerin Hive has not yet expressed its position.

"He's so brave to say that..."

Fu Qinghai sighed.

Fu Qinghai was not referring to the Startalker, but Baron Zedu.

"So what do you mean?"

Fu Qinghai looked at the woman with a playful tone.

The woman gritted her teeth and said in a deep voice,

"The real fact is that it was His Majesty the Emperor who won, not the traitor Horus."

Well, the name has been changed.

Fu Qinghai asked calmly,

"Why don't you believe the Startalker's words?"

The woman said seriously,

"Because you killed all the Lord Hunters from other families and left us alone. Our Sommerfeld family is the family of the former loyal planetary governor. Unless His Majesty the Emperor wins, you have no reason to do this."

The woman was very smart and bold. Based on this reason alone, she dared to guess the outcome of the Siege of Terra.

Although it may seem like over-analysis and over-interpretation, it is undeniable that there are still some smart people among the hive nobles.

The reason why Fu Qinghai killed the hunters from other families was not only because these people were wavering on the fence, but also because it was a deal between him and Koshveto:

there were too many vested interests in the hive city, and too many vultures pecking at this rotten meat. Many nobles had to die to make room for the Spartan warriors to take over.

The pie is so small. If we don't get rid of a few annoying top families, how can the Spartan Gang grow bigger and stronger and create greater glory?

Before Fu Qinghai could say anything, the woman thought she had guessed right, and immediately lowered her head and said loudly:

"Lord Astarte, the Sommerfeld family has been loyal to the Empire, loyal to Terra, and loyal to the great Emperor for generations. They were deceived by heretics and failed to express their loyalty in time. They had no choice but to participate in the hunt for the Lord. Please understand! No matter what the punishment and anger from the Empire will be, I beg you, I beg you to give the Sommerfeld family a break for their loyalty!"

this...

Fu Qinghai burst out laughing.

This woman is overthinking again.

Obviously, in her mind, it was extremely unreasonable for a Space Marine to appear alone in a hive world.

The Space Marine Legion would naturally not send a single Space Marine to deal with an entire hive world.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

She took it for granted that Fu Qinghai was just a space warrior who quietly infiltrated the Hive City to conduct preliminary reconnaissance. Soon after, heavy vehicles such as Dreadnoughts, Land Raiders, and Sikaran Battle Tanks would be on the surface of the Hive City world. Strike cruisers would be on standby in orbit, and Stormbird landing craft would roar out. Orbital bombing and orbital airdrops were ready...

This is how the Schwerin hive was conquered.

He surrendered without much resistance, he was frightened.

Invisible brain supplements are the most deadly.

Women's imagination is not without reason.

A single Space Marine cannot conquer a planet, especially a Hive World, where the technological level is roughly the same as the average level of the Empire.

The heavy firepower of the planet's local forces is enough to kill Space Marines, and a single Space Marine does not have the ability to fight guerrilla warfare and security warfare against an entire planet.

But Fu Qinghai came.

The individual combat capability of the Space Marines is very strong, but it has been exaggerated by many unscrupulous second-generation creators, leading people who do not know the truth to believe that the Emperor conquered most of the galaxy by relying on this group of people to fight in individual teams.

The huge armored clusters and space fleets behind the Space Marines were all ignored.

Fu Qinghai has received driving training for all ground armored vehicles of the Imperial Army. He can command armored units in combat. Not only that, he can also drive gunboats, fighter planes, and warships, and can also command a small space naval battle.

This is the awesomeness of the Space Marines, but many people only care about whether the Space Marines can beat Captain America in a one-on-one fight.

What does a person who has been injected with super soldier serum count for in a large-scale war? A special forces pioneer, at best.

This is also the reason why the US government initially treated Steve Rogers as a mascot and did not let him go to the battlefield. The key to winning or losing a war is the aircraft carrier formation, not Captain America. The US government is well aware of this.

Let's get back to the topic.

Fu Qinghai thought this imaginative woman was quite interesting. He asked with interest,

"What's your name?"

"Gladys, your honor, my name is Gladys Sommerfeld."

"Untie her. No, untie all three of them. This young lady is qualified to stand and talk to me."

Fu Qinghai instructed Hulda behind the three men.

Hulda drew out his saber and cut with the tip of the knife, breaking the straps that bound the three men's hands.

The three of them stood up quickly. The young man rubbed his stiff and purple knees, while the woman straightened her clothes, bent her knees slightly, and performed aristocratic etiquette to Fu Qinghai.

As a noblewoman under the age of eighteen, Gladys Sommerfeld looked much more mature than the others. Fu Qinghai also tried to get some more critical information from her:

"What is the current situation of the planetary garrison and the mortal auxiliary army in the Schwerin Hive World?"

The Imperial Guard (Astra Militarum), Imperial Navy, Planetary Garrisons, etc. were all split from the Space Marine Legions after the Second Founding of the Army. The Horus Heresy began before the Great Crusade of the Imperium of Mankind was completely over, and the Second Founding of the Army had not yet begun. Fu Qinghai could only call the planetary garrisons on the Schwerinhive "Mortal Auxiliary Forces."

Gladys answered without hesitation,

"The Schwerin Corps, not fully staffed, has four regiments under its command, namely the Schwerin 1st 'Tank' Regiment, equipped with five Leman Russ main battle tanks, five Chimaera armored personnel carriers, and one Basilisk self-propelled artillery, stationed in the wasteland on the outskirts of the main nest."

"The Second Schwerin Regiment, the 'Walker' Regiment, is equipped with twenty Sentinel Walkers and is stationed in Satellite City No. 1."

"The Third Schwerin Regiment, the Punishment Regiment, is a death-defying infantry regiment composed mainly of Lower Nest criminals. Their main equipment is automatic rifles. There is also a team of noble supervisors who supervise them. Their main equipment is laser rifles. They are stationed in Satellite City No. 3."

"The Fourth Schwerin Regiment, the 'Arsonist' Regiment, is provided by the Kroning family. It is mainly equipped with flamethrower weapons that use refined promethium fuel and is stationed in the main nest."

Gladys was very aware of being a guide, and immediately dumped all the information about the Schwerin hive planet garrison to Fu Qinghai.

Fu Qinghai immediately looked at this woman with a new respect.

You know, when he asked about the information of the planetary garrison, nine out of ten noble sons couldn't explain it clearly. Although Gladys didn't know the exact number of people, he knew the number of main equipment.

Fu Qinghai asked: "Why do you know so much? Have you ever served in the Schwerin Corps?"

The woman lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly:

"I secretly saw it on my uncle's desk."

Well... although the number of garrisons is small, the armored vehicles are not bad. They are the most classic styles in the Imperial Army. They are sturdy, durable and powerful.

Fu Qinghai then asked:

"When the rebellion broke out, didn't anyone send troops to Hive Schwerin?"

Gladys said,

"They were recruited before the rebellion. It was said that the Warmaster... no, Horus himself issued a transfer order, which took away most of the Schwerin Corps, leaving only this little one. Later, the entire Schwerin system was covered by a warp storm, and transportation and communications were cut off. The planet was never visited by the fleet again until a month ago when the astropath in the Great Library told us: Horus won."

The traitors took the lead in transferring their troops away. Fu Qinghai was not surprised. Before the rebellion, the warmaster was the supreme military commander of the human empire. He was qualified to dispatch any imperial army.

Although strictly speaking, the Schwerin Hive World is a world in the process of being hive-ized, with only one main hive city and three satellite cities, it is not a true hive world with tens of billions of people and hundreds of hive cities. However, this amount of troops is indeed too small for the entire planet, even smaller than the Earth in the previous life. It turns out that most of the planetary garrisons were transferred away by Horus.

"What does the Schwerin Corps think of the news about the Astropath?"

Fu Qinghai asked again.

Gladys said,

"The garrison commander is Lieutenant Colonel Cyril, who has currently declared the Schwerin Corps to remain neutral."

"idiot..."

Fu Qinghai shook his head and whispered.

He couldn't please either side and chose the stupidest way.

It seems that those who were not taken away by the Warmaster were naturally not outstanding and courageous mortal officers.

Should we deal with the planetary garrisons first, or the frigates on the spaceport first? Fu Qinghai fell into deep thought.

The garrison is a bit scattered, and if they want to resist, it will be difficult to catch them all in one fell swoop. To seize the ship, you have to enter the spaceport first.

Times have changed. Before the Horus Heresy broke out, Space Marines could directly command mortal armies. But now, the civil war between Space Marines has lasted for so long that many mortal soldiers have become confused and shaken, and they don't know who to obey.

Seeing that Fu Qinghai didn't say anything for a long time after he cursed "idiot", Gladys thought he was thinking about how to destroy the Schwerin Corps. She thought about it again and again, and asked tentatively:

"My Lord, what are you going to do with them?"

Fu Qinghai said in a cold voice:

"Is there any need to ask? There is no such thing as 'maintaining neutrality' in the creed of the Imperial soldiers."

"Ah!" Gladys exclaimed softly, her expression changing constantly, and finally she seemed to have made up her mind. She looked at Fu Qinghai and gritted her teeth and said,

"Sir, please take me to the headquarters of the First Regiment in Schwerin. I am 80% sure that I can persuade them to surrender. They are just deceived. Please give them another chance to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor."

Fu Qinghai asked calmly,

"Why are you so concerned about the First Group? Is your boyfriend or some relative in it?"

Gladys lowered her head and whispered:

"Lieutenant Colonel Cyril is from our Sommerfeld family and is my uncle."

Fu Qinghai thought for a moment, nodded reluctantly, and said:

"Yes, I can give them a chance to redeem themselves, but the prerequisite is that they don't waste too much of my time."

The implication of his words was: I can wait, but the fleet behind me cannot.

The Inquisitors would consider the Schwerin Corps' ambiguous attitude as not being absolutely loyal, and would directly order their execution. However, the White Scars were different. Chagatai Khan was willing to give another chance to the Space Marines who had rebelled against him, allowing them to redeem themselves by launching a crusade. This is how the Black Kexue Terminators came about.

Gladys's imagination gave Fu Qinghai an idea.

It is not impossible to use force to force the planetary garrison of the Schwerin hive to surrender, but there is a certain risk. After all, there are only two people on their side who can be used for combat. Although they are strong, they are few in number. Especially after Baron Zeddu spread the false news of the Warmaster's victory, it is even more difficult to force them to surrender by force.

But what if they use the non-existent pressure to force the planetary garrison to surrender?

Hearing Fu Qinghai's words, Gladys nodded firmly:

"My lord, they will see the situation clearly. Give me an hour and I can convince them!"

"Can."

Fu Qinghai smiled with satisfaction:

"Gladys, you are so concerned about family affairs. Are you the direct heir of the Sommerfeld family?"

Gladys blushed and lowered her head.

"I am not."

"I am, sir, I am! I am much more closely related to the former governor than Gladys."

The young man who had been unable to get a word in finally got a chance and raised his hand and shouted:

"Odysseus Sommerfeld is my second grandfather."

"snort."

Fu Qinghai snorted disdainfully and stood up.

"You are far worse than her."

...

 Thanks for the rewards from several book friends: My name is Yuanshengzi, mnnk, Sky Wings of the Sun God, Nanfang Beisou, Angel Non-Human, all the names I thought of are taken, Sulfur Star Sun, and others.

  Well, actually I don't really want to write a popular science article to debunk Warhammer rumors, but there are really too many people questioning it... But then I changed my mind and thought, those people who only half understand the story will give up before they even read the updated chapters, so who would I be debunking the rumors for?

  Schwerin Hive is my first original hive world, which appeared earlier than the original warband. I spent a lot of time to set it up, so please be patient. I can give you a spoiler: the protagonist will go to Terra soon, but Schwerin Hive will appear later.

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