Parte
Visiblis
No one truly knows how old the ship is, it has been three thousand years since the Bale family acquired it and became a Rogue Trader house by defeating the pirate organization that was refitting it, interrogations of captured members never came up with the information either, Mechanicum enginseers know that it is old however, materials and techniques long lost to the Imperium were used in it's construction, and the leading theory is that it was built during or just before the Great Crusade and then lost, perhaps as part of a space hulk, for an unknown amount of time until the pirates found it.
No one truly knows how old the ship is, it has been three thousand years since the Bale family acquired it and became a Rogue Trader house by defeating the pirate organization that was refitting it, interrogations of captured members never came up with the information either, Mechanicum enginseers know that it is old however, materials and techniques long lost to the Imperium were used in it's construction, and the leading theory is that it was built during or just before the Great Crusade and then lost, perhaps as part of a space hulk, for an unknown amount of time until the pirates found it.
Parte
Visiblis
knows, but refuses to allow that data to be accessed.
The
Imperium forbids artificial intelligence, but the machine spirits
responsible for their naval vessels are among the most aware and
independent of all, with their own personalities and predilections,
they all serve the Emperor and Omnissiah in the form of their
captains and crew, but they do so with their own quirks, and some
say, even emotions.
Parte Visiblis was scared of being alone, for too long it's halls were empty, it's drives silent without anyone to tend them, during the ages it spent as a nearly ruined piece of space debris it desired only to return to service and have a crew again, reactivation was a joy, and once functional the tech-priests were in awe of the speed with which it traveled as it celebrated it's new freedom and service. In combat that eagerness was less, for it feared ruination, not for itself, but for those it carried, if they died, it would be alone once more, and space was too large and empty to be alone, even for one whose body was five kilometers long.
Parte Visiblis was scared of being alone, for too long it's halls were empty, it's drives silent without anyone to tend them, during the ages it spent as a nearly ruined piece of space debris it desired only to return to service and have a crew again, reactivation was a joy, and once functional the tech-priests were in awe of the speed with which it traveled as it celebrated it's new freedom and service. In combat that eagerness was less, for it feared ruination, not for itself, but for those it carried, if they died, it would be alone once more, and space was too large and empty to be alone, even for one whose body was five kilometers long.
The
ship watched it's crew as they went about their day through
multitudinous sensors and cameras both within and without it's body,
and it recognized those in command through their gene-codes in it's
systems, the Captain, who although never realizing the awareness of
his ship, kept it safe anyway, the Navigators who guided it through
the horrors of the warp, the pilots who communed with it's systems
and of course, the Engineseers themselves, who came closest of all to
understanding it.
For the last few hours, the most important members of those groups had been off the ship, and for a time its auger arrays where able to track them as they took a minor vessel to the station it was docked near, but it lost them once inside. It found this unacceptable, particularly as the long wait in this system had agitated many of the other crew inside as well, Parte Visiblis did not know why they were agitated, the psychology of humans was alien to it, but it knew many were doing things that weren't related to keeping itself operational, and many were terminating.
For the last few hours, the most important members of those groups had been off the ship, and for a time its auger arrays where able to track them as they took a minor vessel to the station it was docked near, but it lost them once inside. It found this unacceptable, particularly as the long wait in this system had agitated many of the other crew inside as well, Parte Visiblis did not know why they were agitated, the psychology of humans was alien to it, but it knew many were doing things that weren't related to keeping itself operational, and many were terminating.
It
was scared, although it did not have a body of meat, bone and nerves,
yet it still reacted, it's heart beat faster, and the containment on
it's plasma drive flickered, sending alarms wailing, it's breathing
quickened, and reports of atmospheric venting ran throughout the
ship, it closed it's eyes in fear and the duty watch found their
sensors failing.
Such
was the situation on board when Bale and his party returned.
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