Despite me saying that we were te, I did take a mio think this through. I know, what the fuck are you talking about, Ea? Think it through. When have you ever dohat before? And unfortunately, my only ao that question would be 'never'. Not a good look for someone who is arguably one of the mentally stro people in the gaxy, if you don't t eldritch fuckers like Tzeentch. The problem is that 'mental strength' like what I have with me being able to think both fast and a lot with creating hundreds of Mind-Cores with thousands of threads of thought going on in each of them like the biological puters they are is entirely not the same thing as being smart. Smart, which arguably, I am not. Just thought that somehow hurt. Case in point, I could have eaten the splinter fleet with no problem if I just used all my cards right. Even that idea of using my eldritch flesh as ammo or even just chugging biomass filled with densed bio-energy never came to my mind. I was focused on what I already knew I could do. Space Magic, healing, drones, and swords. In a way, I went for a full INT build with points pced into my WIS stat. I khose sleepless nights pying dnd were worth it. So with all that in mind. Was turning into a big-ass bio-ship and throwing myself onto Baal, through the Tyranid blockade the right choiake here, or was it a moronic idea? I remembered quite a bit about the Devastation of Baal. It was a cool story after all, but if you asked me who died where and what stages the whole invasion had, then I'd e up empty-handed. I knew Ka'Bundha and his demons came in and wrecked havo Baal Prime sometime and that the Knights of Blood did an epic st stand against him as they fully gave in to the bck rage but not much else aside from how Dante killed the Swarmlord at the end just before the reborn Primarch desded onto the p. Not much to work with, but enough for me. I wahe Swarmlord's DNA, and I wanted Primarch's DNA. To be ho, I'd t this excursion a win if I got a bunch of bio-energy and the first of those two, but a girl could dream, couldn't she? No, you o aim high to win. I'll get a lock of hair from Girlyman for sure and do the same with a Custodes if I e across any. "What are the downsides of turning into a bio-ship to break through the Tyranid blockade?" I mused to myself. "Getting blown up by the PDF's air defeurrets?" Seleried. "They'll have more important things to worry about than a weirdly small bio-ship nding on that wastend," I tered. "Won't it be a problem if they see you?" Val asked, and I had to take a sed look to make sure it was him, but I'd be rather surprised if a random human mao sneak up on me. He still had simir features but his androgynous face turned med and mase, a few scars dotted his skin along with a well-cared-for beard and hair, which while the same inky bck as before was now lined with streaks of graying hair. "Nice," I nodded. He perfectly hat retired military general look, "and maybe?" I tilted my head, "I don't know how occupied they would be at the time, so it depends, but it would be a problem if they realized I came out of a bio-ship." "I read battle reports iime," Zedev interjected, one of the blue windows floating around him flew up to me and I saw a barrage of reports from deployment orders to requests for artillery shelling and so much more just fly by as they were taken over by dozens of ries, "we could time our entry to be at a time when nobody would have the leisure to note a single bio-ship." "And you could just put an Illusion around the ship," Val crossed his arms, looking ready to shout at some new recruits on hell week, "you could sustain an Illusion that rge, no?" "I could," I shrugged. "I could also make a fireball the size of a moon, but it'd be a tremendous waste of energy." "Waste...of...energy?" Val looked at me in befuddlement. "Think whatever you will," I clicked my tongue, oops? Should I not have said that? "I will not do it if it is not a must. Hidiweeyranids might be much easier and I could make do with more...effit camoufge." I didn't o use space magic to solve every problem. I had the gee of a Lictor, who said I couldn't put its carapa a bio-ship and make it go invisible? "How far are we from Baal?" I turo Zedev. "4 AU." "To be ho, I have no idea how fast I could go, so that didn't help much," I said as I stared up at the stars dotting the night sky. I think Zedev looked at me with a fair bit of befuddlement, but he quickly went back to going over whatever data streams he was ied in. "Anyway," I cpped, "we should head over there. We 't time our heroic arrival from this far away." "How are we going to get to space?" Selene frowned. "bio-ships shouldn't be able to nd os without crashing." "Hmmm," I stopped to think for a moment. I could easily build a small bio-ship the size of a nding craft here and lift it into orbit with my TK but would that be the most effit way of doing it? I've beeremely wasteful with my soul energy as of te, despite my needing to literally ect my soul to hell to refill it. So...is there a better way of doing it? I could try that teleport trick I mao get from the Crotalid and try to re-enter realspa orbit or even on Baal but as I've previously discussed, I have no idea how to aim it so that idea was out until I learned how to glimpse into realspace with my soul. would be the budget version of that idea, which would be the level of the trick Val taught me. I called it Blink and it would allow me to slip into that iween and travel a 'short' distanbsp;'Short' I snorted in my mind. Only in Warhammer could people refer to an ability that could hop ps as a short-distaeleport. Well, with my power flowing into it, it 'should' be able to do that. Unfortunately, my blinks were... uable. More training required. Let's leave it at that. That left me only with the... biological solutions. My only problem was that none of the Tyranid nding crafts were desigo leave after they made pfall and the same went for bio-ships. The Tyranids got their biomass off of a p with these bigass towers and the bio-ships could ect to their ends and suck the biomass up through these towers as if they were straws. I could maybe put together something that could go faster than escape velocity, but the reason I wasn't TK-ing us up there in the first pce was effibsp;Maybe I'd have to go with the initial pn and just make a rge bubble filled with air and just TK us up there. The idea of going back to a pn I already disregarded left a sour taste in my mouth, but at least I did take the time to gh my options and didn't just choose the easiest ohout thought, so I guess that is something. "I'm pnning to just grab us with Telekinesis along with a rge bubble of air and lift us into space," I got a few ed gazes at that, "I am open to other ideas though." "I don't have suffit data on your capabilities to calcute an optimal pn of a." "Then assume," I shrugged, "I'm not going to give you a list of my strengths and weaknesses." "I'd have said that if your main is efficy, then you should use a focus for your Psychic powers like my staff," Val said as his Aeldari staff slipped out from under his illusion as he waved it around, "but somehow you break these foci." "I 't help it if they are sile," I shrugged, all of your dumb foci were made of -based Wraithbone, of course, they turned into dust in my hands when they got purified, "Is that all?" "Couldn't the three of us pool our powers together to lessen the load on you?" asked Seleh a g Val and then me. "Hmmm," I tilted my head in thought as I poked my cheek with a finger, "Maybe? But I'm not that starved for energy to put you in danger of being possessed." "All the power I supply lessens the load on you," she said with a shrug, "and I think Valenith could help much more than me." "What do you think?" I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "I am willing to try," he said, "though to be safe I'd reend that you hahe protective measures so we don't lose our air if I fail to maintain the power supply and the two of us only help with increasing the velocity." By 'the two of us', he meant him and Selehat could work holy. My primary with this was that if either of them failed, somehow all of them would die, but like this, I'd just have to supplement some velocity. "Alright," I nodded, "I don't think we should wait much more." I looked around and got a round of nods. "Let's go then." A spherical barrier quickly covered us and a rge k of the ziggurat's side we were standing on. Soul Energy flowed into it, making yers upon yers of barriers tthen it further. I pointed upwards with a smirk, more for dramatics than anything, as my TK took hold of the rge sphere and tore it out. I felt the ground move beh my feet as thousands of cubic meters of damned Wraithbohat the whole damned Zigurrat was made of floated upwards. First, it was slow, but I started increasing the speed with time as I also started w oart of the Bio-ship. White tendrils crawled along the floor and rushed out toward the sides of the barrier and I let them pass through. Out of those tendrils flowed a modified carapace, it flowed over the outside of the barriers and quickly coated it in yers upon yers of alien armor meant to shield bio-ships from other void-ships. On the inside grew moss that glowed in a warm yellow color, I couldn't find much use for most floral temptes but that glowing moss from the as at least good fhting as with the armor c the whole sphere from the outside no sunlight made its way inside. Selene quickly sat down into a meditative pose and not long after I felt the velocity of our makeshift transport vessel increase, it wasn't mupared to what I already gave it, but it put a smile on my face. A few seds ter, the whole thing rocked as its speed increased by a third when Valenith joined in with his staff glowing in eldritch light as his face ulled into a focused frown. All this almost distracted me from when the Zigurrat below us suddenly... disappeared. I frowned a a k of the armor drop from the underside of the sphere. On the way down the hair-thin white tendril I pushed into that k, transformed it into a modified Sky-ssher and ected to me telepathically. I saw through its eyes and heard through its ears. There was nothing there aside from grey rocks and absolutely no sign of life. Still, I ordered the droo fly downward as the armored sphere sped up into the atmosphere. A strange feeling crawled through my e with the drone and trolling it grew challenging. It was like it didn't want to go there despite having zero self-awareness or even capability for fear. The grand mind pace I structed in my mindscape instantly detected the mental manipution, trying to push its way inside as it helplessly spttered against my outermost shields. I frowned as I wiped every bit of sciousness out of the drone and manually trolled it to fly down. One sed passed and the mental intrusion tio uselessly crash against my shields, but in the sed, my drone broke through something. No, breaking through wasn't the right word. It passed through a veil and the annoyial influence immediately stopped and through its eyes; I saw the ziggurat with the Gate at the top of it and a sizeable k of its side missing. "Curious." now I know how an Aeldari temple survived this close to the home world of a Primarbsp;With my curiosity satisfied the white tendril ihe droransformed, irreversibly turning into a part of the drone before I cut tact with it. Now it'd crash down to the ground and sptter against the stoh not even the best Xenobiologist being able to tell that it was any different from a normal Tyranid Sky-ssher. A sharp hiss left my lips as I recollected myself, I put paiors into the topmost yer of armor c the sphere and I just now felt it starting to burn. "We are leaving the atmosphere," I said, my voice carrying over the whole spaside, "prepare for turbulence, I am seg you all to your pow." The white tendrils pulsed ond four of them branched off, one branch rushing for each of us and morphing into a chair. I fell bato mine ahe tendrils secure my body into it as I focused oher any port of the sphere grew too damaged to remain funal ahe air inside. "Eeeep," Selene yelped as my tendrils crawled across her body and secured her into a simir chair but she quickly returned her focus to the task at hand, if with a slight blush on her face. The other two remained silent as they were secured with Zedev's red eye fshiedly as he snapped his head around to record everything that happened while he waved around a mechadendrite with an Auspex at the end of it. He is like a kid in a dy store. Space... My lips curled into a smile. Despite getting reinated into this shitty universe, I couldn't say it was all that bad. Cute women... spaceships... eldritch powers... sci-fi toys... Life was good. If only I had a good meal, to make it eveer. P3t1