Warhammer 40k Origins Stellaris Civilization Simulator

This lake is not an ordinary body of water, but a liquid life aggregate composed of countless Luca cells.

Scientists were surprised to find that the genetic sequence within the lake was constantly changing, with genetic recombination and evolution occurring every moment.

It not only devours and analyzes biological samples fed into it, but can also automatically optimize its genetic structure to generate a new form that is more adaptable to the environment.

The Federation named this miraculous lake the "Primordial Sea", a hotbed of endless evolution of life, a life experiment field more powerful and vivid than any gene bank.

Inside the Primordial Sea, scientists witnessed countless miracles. They released an ordinary fish into the lake, and within just a few hours, the fish's structure had transformed. Its scales began to secrete radiation-resistant substances, its gills adapted to the exchange of different gases, and its nervous system even developed the perception capabilities of an intelligent creature.

Luca can transform organisms at will, but the pro-life nature it has been trained to develop during our cultivation process allows it to shape life in the direction we approve, rather than turning it into some kind of mutant monster.

Scientists have tried to guide these changes more precisely and have finally mastered a "directed evolution technology" that can give living organisms new characteristics in a short period of time, enabling them to acquire extraordinary abilities that surpass natural evolution.

The effects of Luka cells have been proven through experiments to be safe and directly applicable to existing species. Residents of the Federation can choose to take Primordial Sea Oral Liquid, which, through a brief period of genetic regulation, allows their bodies to undergo a profound evolution.

Any living thing can choose to completely change its physiological structure, such as changing from organic life to semi-plant life, or giving its organs additional special abilities, or even adjusting itself to another species.

When scientists realized Luca's true potential, they fell into deep contemplation.

The birth of the Primordial Sea marked the Federation's official entry into the "Age of Infinite Evolution," but this also brought up a lot of questions: If any life can change at will, then what is the definition of a population? If anyone can change their race, does the concept of ethnic identity still exist?

Despite numerous doubts, we can no longer stop this wave of ascension. The Federation will eventually usher in an unprecedented new era, an era where life forms are no longer restricted and evolution never ends.

……

When the Director of Sociology reported these astonishing findings, he believed that the Federation's current genetic modification technology had reached a period of infinite progress.

The proposal of a new phased ascension project based on the latest research results allows the Federation to optimize the genetic optimization project countless times, ultimately reaching an incredible level.

Relevant researchers have put forward two different options for ascension engineering.

One is specialized trait design, which greatly increases the redundancy of gene fragments, making it convenient for citizens to modify themselves at any time and then immediately add the various traits they want.

This allows a citizen to become a top master in their chosen profession. Every resident of the Federation can decide for themselves whether to become a technological genius or a combat expert. The only drawback is that this consumes a great deal of computing power from the relevant facilities and personnel, but this shortcoming is completely acceptable.

The second is universal trait design, which allows citizens to automatically undergo benign changes under the influence of the environment by directly enhancing basic biological capabilities and appropriately activating gene mutation activity.

For example, a mining worker might wake up and find their hands have grown drill-like muscles and nail structures. This type of transformation doesn't have the same upper limit as the specialized type, but it's more labor-saving.

But in the end, the consul chose to have them all. Everyone can become whoever they want to be and become beneficial to others. The so-called "everyone for me, and I for everyone" is the original intention of our civilization.

This freedom is not only reflected in consciousness, but also in physiological structure. It is well known that humans cannot appreciate the graceful postures that squid people consider beautiful, but now we can change it.

Today's gene adjustment technology can achieve appearance changes across the biological world, and this process only takes a very short time, which means that there is no difference between dragons and humans.

Every citizen can choose the shape they want. No longer have to rely solely on communication in memory to understand the good of "aliens". You can become the shape they love!

From now on our species, called the Helkas, humans and dragons, squid-men and dryads, are history.

105

Chapter 105: Species that cannot live well.

We have achieved the ability to modify the appearance, but that is still a long way from changing the spiritual reflection, that is, adjusting the soul. Adjusting the soul without driving the person being adjusted crazy is even further away, so we need to have more contact with a certain psychic race and their treasures.

……

"What do you think this thing is made of?"

A beetle-man psychic looked at the Eldar soul stone placed in the research scanner with great interest.

"This material is very strange. It is some kind of substance that is highly contaminated by the energy of the Warp. It can almost be said to be materialized psychic energy."

Another beetle researcher carefully recorded the readings.

"It seems to contain a psychic entity, the soul of a deceased Eldar, who has endured immense torture, his ability to think shattered. It seems that when this material is activated and introduced into the appropriate facility, it will cause severe pain to the soul within."

"What does that mean?"

After leaving office, Tessexin became a scientist again. He knew nothing about psychic powers, so he could not understand the two people's "telepathy".

In the election for the new federal term, former Secretary of State Dolores Muwanga successfully gained the most weight and became the new federal supreme ruler.

In addition to public opinion, there are also political considerations. The human species within the Federation is equal to the sum of the proportions of all other species.

In addition, the new Luca Life Serum that has been promoted these days is suspected of being "evil aliens that want to completely eliminate and assimilate all humans." In order to show our attention to human civil rights, we must set a certain example to appease the emotions of humans in the newly conquered areas.

The beetle psychic patiently explained his research findings on the spirit stone to the senior scientific research director:

"This is a special psychic container that contains extremely powerful psychic energy. It can absorb the souls of targets whose identities have been successfully registered, allowing them to reside in these crystals after death."

"They can release psychic power even in the Spirit Stone. The automata of the Eldar are essentially controlled by these souls, but doing so will bring pain to the souls."

"Somehow, we might be able to further process this species, releasing the spirits within, or simply extract psychic energy from them to power our own mediums."

"This kind of snorting music sounds evil enough. We'll discuss it later."

But Tessin still made a detailed record of the relevant information and speculation on its use: "If it is ground into powder, or processed in other ways..."

We may have just discovered a method for creating an important, albeit somewhat ethically questionable, psionic material.

……

On the other hand, the living elves are in more trouble.

The Eldar captured by the Federation look gloomy all day long. Even though the punishment we impose is not severe, they only need to serve a century in prison to obtain standard residency and then can apply for citizenship. The sentence is just ordinary labor reform, but a reality stabilization anchor is set up to prohibit them from using psychic energy to be lazy.

However, they showed various abnormal conditions: either they were extremely lazy and did not work at all, had no reaction when being put in solitary confinement, or even died of slowly weakening breathing; or they shouted that there was no world soul in the environment; or they said that they were not on this path.

Making them mine is more laborious than turning them into organic slurry.

Of course, there are also some relatively "normal" ones among them, who are happily engaged in labor work. We originally thought that although this species is so abstract, there are always some human-like ones.

Unfortunately, we soon stopped noticing it, because these hard-working Eldar worked too hard. They began to work without sleep until they died suddenly, as if letting the Federation earn less than one unit of minerals would cost them their lives.

This chaos also created the danger of a breakdown in peace. Clearly, the unhealthy collective psychic influence of these elves was damaging Changyuan in the other world.

And since we said before that we would spare their lives as long as they surrender, we can't break the agreement with Luoshui now. We can only hold our noses and help these elves treat their illnesses, and collect some psychic technology by the way.

Based on the interrogation of several professional wizards among these Eldar, they introduced the origin and current situation of their species.

The Eldar were once an ancient forerunner empire with a highly advanced civilization, but after ruling the galaxy for tens of millions of years, their civilization began to decline.

Due to the Eldar's innate high sensitivity and sharp perception, their emotional fluctuations are stronger than those of ordinary creatures, and it is more difficult for them to be satisfied by ordinary consumer products.

Therefore, during the Age of the Great Corruption, all the Eldar began to indulge in extreme and even inhumane sensory enjoyment.

Because their souls were immortal at that time, all kinds of bizarre "Black Muse Art" were invented, and they began to squander their lives as a consumer product.

Even they themselves do not want to and dare not recall their various crazy behaviors.

Anyway, death was not scary for the Eldar at that time. The Eldar soul only needed to stay in the warp for a period of time before it could be reincarnated with complete memories.

And we all know that thoughts can create gods, so what happened later was natural: the "Black Muse" appeared and became a malicious god, and the Eldar Empire was destroyed by it.

The destruction of the Eldar also led to the creation of the famous galactic object: the Eye of Terror, making it extremely easy for entities from the Warp to enter reality.

In other words, while the Eldar were torturing themselves to extinction, they were also dragging everyone else into being tortured by the demons.

To be honest, when the federal governor learned this, he really considered whether to execute them collectively for the sake of morality and ignore the spirit of the contract.

……

Of all the existing Eldar, the Ark, Wild and Harlequin Eldar are reformers who have rejected the lifestyle of the ancient Eldar Empire and sought to quell their extreme desires, while the Dark Eldar are completely corrupted.

Of course, whether they are fallen or not is just their judgment based on the standards of their own species. To other aliens, every branch of the Eldar is equally bad, either bloodthirsty and murderous, or capricious, or both bloodthirsty and murderous and capricious.

The "Fall of the Eldar" also determined the current lifestyle of this species. Their souls, marked by the Black Muse, will be preyed upon by demons as soon as they die.

Therefore, the Ark Eldar preserve their souls through the Tao and Soul Stone, the Wild Eldar preserve their souls by returning to nature and the Soul of the World, and the Harlequin, who has never been seen, seeks help from the only surviving Eldar god, the Laughing God.

Without their Path and World Soul, the Eldar would once again give into sensual pleasures and begin to lose their souls.

Those Eldar who are so lazy that they stop breathing, or who work so hard that they die suddenly, are all losing their self-control methods and returning to the "nature" of this species.

They will quickly lose their souls and eventually die, becoming a feast for the Chaos Gods.

In other words, they must use a set of abstract and complex rituals and equipment to restrain themselves in order to survive normally, otherwise they will slowly become extinct. This is no longer an abstract story that can be described as "how are they still alive?"

Compared to the Eldar, we felt the Greenskins were more normal, being mere biological weapons. The Eldar, however, as normal, intelligent life forms, could defy nature to such an extent, leading a normal life before self-destructing. This truly opened the Federation's eyes and even provided additional inspiration for sociological research.

All in all, these Eldar prisoners are dying unless there is something to protect their spirits.

It seems like we really do have a solution, but unfortunately those who can solve it are unwilling to do so.

"Unfortunately, we don't have this idea. The souls of your species are too..."

The incarnation of the agricultural goddess Raya smiled without saying a word, showing the attitude of the Federal Mecha God towards this.

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Chapter 106: The fate of Zelo Essence and Ada.

"The text looks very fancy, but I just changed their profile pictures using species integration decision-making."

"I've already defaulted on the Void Realm, so what can the Subspace do? I've already been punished by Maye's debt repayment method countless times. Could S-man come out of his computer and beat me up... Why is my phone sending me a food show late at night?"

……

Next to a psychic vortex on a new living planet, in the area with the most intense psychic reaction, the Federation's psychic research team is conducting a shocking experiment.

The beetle mediums gathered in front of the psychic storm that distorted the boundary between reality and illusion. They were surrounded by observers from various federal research departments, psychic masters, and some Eldar prisoners who had high academic value and were given a certain degree of freedom.

"Throw the soul stone into the vortex."

The Director of Psionic Research whispered an order.

Several research assistants carefully operated the robotic arm, slowly sending a dark blue soul stone into the constantly rotating, all-consuming psychic storm.

In an instant, the surface of the soul stone cracked, and the psychic entity inside let out a low hum of pain.

But unlike those souls devoured by Slaanesh, these souls were not dragged into the Warp. Instead, they dissolved and dissipated bit by bit under the tearing and cleansing of the vortex, and finally turned into a ray of light, floating in the air.

As the first soul stone shattered, an unprecedented spiritual energy spread out, pure and warm, without any malice or chaos.

These dissipated energies quickly condensed and settled on the periphery of the vortex, eventually forming a light blue-purple dust.

"This substance should be named Zelodust."

The research director whispered, as if announcing some kind of new life.

The Eldar prisoners watched everything that happened before their eyes. The souls sealed in the soul stones were finally freed from their long-lasting torture.

At the moment their wills were shattered, they could still briefly sense their own existence, but they did not feel any pain, nor were they swallowed by chaos. Instead, they completely merged into nothingness and turned into pure psychic dust.

One of the Eldar wizards watched the faint light dissipate and whispered with a complicated expression: "At least... they escaped the great enemy."

This was not the outcome most of the Eldar had hoped for, but it was not bad at all. Finally, they had a way to escape the torment of Slaanesh, and many souls chose to accept this fate.

……

In the process of the Federation integrating Eldar prisoners of war, psychic researchers gradually improved the method of processing Eldar soul stones.

They discovered that if these spirit stones were thrown into the psychic vortex of the Federation's living planet and crushed, their structure would completely disintegrate and eventually form a pure powder substance.

This powder carries stable psychic energy fluctuations and can be easily absorbed and utilized by psychics after dilution, thereby greatly enhancing psychic power. This substance was officially named "Zero" by the research team.

This treatment not only freed the soul in the Soul Stone, but more importantly, it severed the connection between the Eldar soul and Slaanesh.

Many Eldar souls, upon learning that they had only two fates: either eternal servitude to the Chaos Gods or transformation into Zelor, chose the latter.

In these final moments, they displayed unprecedented calmness. The psychic scanner recorded that, the moment the Soul Stone was thrown into the vortex, the soul's cries and struggles briefly emerged, but were quickly assimilated by the pure energy of a higher dimension, transforming into a wisp of pale blue dust that drifted away in the psychic storm.

As day and night alternated, more and more soul stones were thrown into the vortex of psychic energy and turned into Zelo dust. A faint silver glow floated in the sky with the wind, like the reflection of the Milky Way.

All of this may not be considered true redemption, but for the Eldar who are destined to be devoured by Chaos, it is the only remaining dignity.

However, this is only a good destination for the dead Eldar.

……

For those Eldar prisoners who were still alive, there was no such simple way to get relief.

Their souls are in constant danger of being devoured by the curse of Slaanesh.

After deeply studying the Eldar's path theory, the Federation Psychic Master Ruoken proposed three paths of survival to them.

Inside the Federation's Psionic Research Center, Psionic Master Ruokhen stood before the Eldar prisoners, calmly and firmly explaining their choice.

Behind him were many prisoners, and these Eldar listened to the teachings of this leader of "lower species" with mixed feelings.

"Your souls are tainted, marked, and imprisoned in a hopeless situation set by the God of Debauchery. But there is still a way out."

Ruoken's powerful voice echoed in the hall, like the roar of the tide in the deep ocean.