PFC Chapter 753 Fang Duo
Chapter 753 Fang Duo
Chapter 753 Fang Duo
Tatooine, Mos Eisley.
Fu Qinghai carried a huge all-metal suitcase in one hand, a cylindrical object on his back, and a small crossbody bag on his chest, looking like a slightly tall, weary ordinary passenger as he stepped onto the cargo ship's gangway.
Orion Starship Rental
"Excuse me, may I pass by? Thank you."
Fu Qinghai squeezed his way into the crowded corridor and entered the cabin. After settling his luggage, he found his seat and sat down. To his left sat a Hodin man, and to his right sat a Gran man. The two foreign passengers glanced at Fu Qinghai with indifferent and cold eyes before turning to look ahead.
The diverse and varied alien races in the Star Wars multiverse are a major feature of the game. In contrast, the alien races active on the mainstream interstellar stage in the Warhammer 40K universe are only a handful – because the vast majority of alien races have been wiped out by the human Empire.
Fu Qinghai's teacher, the biological sage Master Quinto, had participated in the compilation and revision of a very famous voluminous work, *Alien Anatomy*. As his student, Fu Qinghai was quite curious about the physical structure of these alien races from the Star Wars universe. Of course, it was only the kind of curiosity one would have for scientific research.
Fu Qinghai suppressed his curiosity.
I leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes to rest.
With a sudden jolt, the cargo ship quickly took off and left the ground. Fu Qinghai glanced out the porthole; the cityscape of Mossley City slowly shrank into a vast yellow expanse, and finally became a yellowish-brown planet as it receded into the distance.
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The spacecraft is performing a hyperspace jump.
Outside the porthole, white streaks of light constantly flashed by.
Fu Qinghai's destination this time is Fangduo.
Most of the planets are located in the colonies of the Milky Way.
That place is very close to the core area.
To understand interstellar travel in the Star Wars canon universe, you first need to understand the geographical concepts of this universe.
Warhammer 40 is set in a parallel universe that was created tens of thousands of years later, branching off from the real world. Therefore, Earth exists in the Warhammer 40 universe, which is also called Terra.
Star Wars is a completely fictional universe with no connection to the real world. Coruscant is located in the core region of the Milky Way galaxy, where there is no solar system or Earth.
Based on its own territorial boundaries, the Human Empire divided the Milky Way into five major star regions, with the solar system—the cradle of all humanity—as the center. The solar star region was located in the center, while the other four major star regions were located in the four surrounding quadrants.
However, the solar system is not located at the center of the Milky Way, but on the Orion Arm, one of the four main arms of the Milky Way. The solar system is at least 2.4 light-years away from the center of the Milky Way.
In the Warhammer 40K universe, the people living in the center of the galaxy are space dwarves. Strictly speaking, they are a special subspecies of humans who evolved after humans settled in the deep core of the galaxy and adapted to the local gravitational environment.
The Star Wars universe divides the Milky Way into six irregularly shaped ring regions from the center outwards: the Core Region, the Colonial Region, the Inner Ring Region, the Expansion Region, the Middle Ring Region, and the Outer Ring Region.
Beyond the outer ring lies unexplored, unknown space, equivalent to the outer space of the Warhammer 40K universe.
According to the Star Wars universe, humanity originated at the center of the galaxy, one of many enslaved races enslaved by the Infinite Empire established by the Rakata in ancient times. After the Infinite Empire collapsed for various reasons, humanity rose among many races and began to expand outwards, gradually becoming the most powerful race in the entire galaxy.
The further inward you go in the Milky Way, the greater the human population; the further out you go, the greater the number of alien races. Tatooine is located within the Hutt Space in the outer ring region. A Hutt Empire once existed here, so the Hutts are very influential in this region. The Hutt Council isn't even considered a gang, but rather a border separatist force.
Take advantage of the free time during this long journey.
Fu Qinghai took a book out of his small satchel.
The Hutter Dictionary of Common Phrases
This was a book he'd found in a junk shop in Tatooine. In a place like Tatooine, books were rarer than spaceship parts, and it took Tatooine a long time to find this dusty book. According to the information on the cover, it was a textbook from a school called "Bobbabo Accelerated School."
As usual, Fu Qinghai opened the dictionary and began to flip through it quickly. He only needed to glance at it to memorize all the word relationships.
Huttite is the native language of the Hutts and the second most spoken language in the galaxy after Basic. It is the common language of Huttite space and most of its surrounding areas. Huttite has become widespread due to the Hutts' powerful influence in commercial and criminal activities throughout the galaxy.
"Isn't the Hutt language the mother tongue of galactic criminals?"
This is a common sarcastic remark made by some people in key areas.
According to this dictionary, there were many non-Hutch peoples who also spoke Hutt.
For example, the Nikotos, Clatuin, and Wodland peoples, having been enslaved and ruled by the Hutt Empire as servant races for a long time in ancient times, have completely lost their native languages and can only communicate in Hutt.
The Rodians and Toidarians, due to their long-standing trade relations with the Hitts, are also usually fluent in Hitt. Additionally, the Nimbani, whose nasal structure makes it easier to pronounce Hitt syllables, also use this advantage to learn the language.
In the outer ring, Hutt is more prevalent than the basic language.
Therefore, learning this language is very necessary.
Learn Hutt language well, and you'll be able to travel anywhere in the outer ring without fear.
"Achuta, my pee kasa..."
(Hert: Hello, my name is...)
"Waki mallya kuna chu chu?"
(Hutter's words: What do you do for a living?)
Fu Qinghai began to try practicing the pronunciation of the Hutt language.
This caused two other travelers from different ethnic groups to turn their heads and look at them.
The Hutt language has many words ending in -a (e.g., botafa), palatalized l (e.g., rulya), and expressions composed of repeated words (e.g., rocka rocka, puna puna). Another common Huttt habit is that the x is pronounced as a double aspirated sound.
It is worth noting that the Hutt language lacks the polite expressions "please" and "thank you," which are common in other languages. It is unknown whether this is related to the Hutt people's racial characteristics.
After numerous oral practice sessions, Fu Qinghai believed that he had basically mastered this foreign language.
"Leave hyperspace in three minutes."
Suddenly, the spaceship's loudspeaker blared:
"Approaching station, Fangduo."
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Tapani Sector, Narastia.
Fu Qinghai carried his luggage down the gangway step by step, paused and looked up at the huge iron-gray planet in the sky.
Fangdo has long been one of the galaxy's most renowned shipyards, its planet surrounded by orbital docks and spaceports. An endless expanse of metal completely covers its surface, forming a complex labyrinth of modular factories, cooling towers, and worker quarters. Following the planetary classification system of Warhammer 40, Fangdo is a standard forge world.
The lead ship of the Executor-class dreadnoughts, the USS Executor, Darth Vader's flagship, was built in Fondor. Of course, at this point in time, the concept and blueprints for this colossal legendary warship have probably not yet been proposed by the Empire.
However, Fu Qinghai did not arrive at Fangduo, but at one of Fangduo's satellites—Nalastia.
Fu Qinghai withdrew his gaze, picked up his luggage, and followed the bustling crowd in the airport toward the bus station.
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In stark contrast to the metallic planet Fondo, Narastia is a lush, jungle-filled moon.
Following the address given to him by Jaba, Fu Qinghai inquired around the city and eventually arrived at the outskirts of the city after turning left and right. He then followed a path deeper into the jungle, where the surrounding vegetation became increasingly lush.
Fu Qinghai even doubted whether he had gone to the wrong place.
Until he saw a house deep in the jungle.
A house that had collapsed halfway had been simply repaired with sheet metal and steel plates. Vines climbed up the windows to the roof, and weeds grew from the cracked stone walls, making it look like a dilapidated and abandoned dwelling.
"Bang bang bang!"
Fu Qinghai knocked on the tin door.
"Who?"
Sure enough, a male voice came from inside the house.
"Jabbar sent me."
Fu Qinghai spoke loudly.
The room was quiet for a few seconds, then faint footsteps were heard, and then the door was pulled open with a "whoosh," revealing a scrawny, disheveled man with messy hair standing behind it, holding a black blaster pistol with the muzzle pointed directly at Fu Qinghai.
"you are lying!"
The man had puffy eyes and dark circles under his eyes; he was so thin he was practically skin and bones, like a drug addict whose body had been hollowed out. He tilted his head back and looked at Fu Qinghai, his gaze unfriendly as he whispered:
"It's not time for our agreed pickup yet, why did Jaba call you here? Is he planning to double-cross you?"
"I'm not here to buy spices."
Fu Qinghai looked down at him and said calmly.
"You're not here to buy... then what are you doing here?"
The skinny man was taken aback for a moment before asking.
“Jabbar said you can forge chaincode here.”
Fu Qinghai explained his purpose for coming.
"Chaincode?"
The gaunt man paused again, then glanced to the left and right of the doorway before retreating back inside and beckoning:
"Come in, come in and talk."
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The interior of the dilapidated room.
Fu Qinghai looked up and surveyed the messy furnishings around him. The interior of the house was just as he had imagined: dark, cluttered, dirty, and filled with smoke. An indescribable strange smell lingered in the room, like some kind of volatile chemical reagent.
"You came from the outer ring road? Want to go to the core area?"
The gaunt man stepped over a pile of clutter, sat down behind the table, picked up a cigarette, took a deep drag, exhaled a thick smoke ring, crossed his legs, and looked at Fu Qinghai, asking a question.
Only desperate criminals who frequent the outer ring area wouldn't have a personal chain code, and only those planning to go to the core area would need a legitimate chain code. He wasn't wrong.
Fu Qinghai looked at him quietly without saying a word.
"Okay, I understand, I understand, I won't ask anymore."
The man, with a cigarette between his fingers, raised his hands and spoke.
"Three thousand five hundred credits each, no bargaining."
The man raised his chin and looked at Fu Qinghai.
"Why is it so expensive?"
Fu Qinghai frowned upon hearing this.
You'd better watch out.
The man blinked and emphasized:
“What I got isn’t some counterfeit Chaincode—Chaincode is issued by the Imperial Security Bureau, and I’m not sure if it can be forged. But what I got is a genuine, legal Chaincode, a legitimate and authentic identity!”
"Are you from the Imperial Security Bureau?"
Fu Qinghai frowned and looked at him, asking in return.
"Of course not, but I can still get my hands on it."
The skinny man spread his hands with a smug look on his face.
Seeing Fu Qinghai's disbelieving look, the gaunt man had no choice but to lean forward, bury his face in the table, and whisper mysteriously as he explained:
"Fondo Starship Shipbuilding Guild! Let me explain to you, you outer-circle guy, that's the organization that manages the entire Fondo. During the Clone Wars, the Fondo Starship Shipbuilding Guild joined the Technological Alliance, belonging to the Independent Star System Confederation, but because the guild members did not support separatism, Fondo was not purged after the war."
"and then?"
Fu Qinghai asked.
The gaunt man continued quietly:
"But the situation is different now. My informant in Fangduo told me that the Imperial authorities are now planning to nationalize Fangduo and turn it into a state-owned shipbuilding factory. They want to abolish the Fangduo interstellar spaceship shipbuilders' guild and have it directly managed by officials sent by the Empire. And their first step in abolishing the guild is to issue an identity chain code to every shipbuilder in Fangduo."
"so what?"
Fu Qinghai then asked.
“And I have connections within the guild.”
The skinny man said smugly:
"The Empire doesn't know the specifics of the guilds' internal affairs. Chaincodes can only be issued based on the personnel information submitted by the guilds. Isn't it easy for us to just add some 'non-existent' shipbuilders to the submitted information? Do you think they can verify them one by one? Do you understand, Outer Ring Guy?"
It turned out to be the case.
Fu Qinghai roughly understood.
"The Empire wants to abolish the shipbuilding guilds..."
Fu Qinghai suddenly thought of something:
"Don't they resist?"
"Can they resist? Would their resistance be of any use?"
The skinny man spat out a disdainful remark:
"The Empire's excuse is that Fondo joined the Independent Star System Confederation during the Clone Wars. Now those guild leaders are scared to death. As long as they can keep their wealth and factories, they're willing to cooperate with anything. What a bunch of useless trash."
"So, what did you do wrong, buddy?"
The gaunt man sized Fu Qinghai up and down:
"Judging from your appearance, you must be a wanted criminal, right?"
You know nothing, I'm one of the Dark Night Sisters.
Fu Qinghai was too lazy to argue with this guy.
He stood there with his arms folded, lost in thought for a moment.
"Okay, give me a chaincode."
Fu Qinghai looked at the gaunt man and said:
"I want to be a shipbuilder."
The skinny man thought Fu Qinghai wanted to get rid of some criminal records by obtaining a new identity chain code, but what Fu Qinghai really wanted to know was: As one of the most famous shipyards in the Milky Way, what is Fangduo's shipbuilding technology like?
Is it worth it for me to steal... no, learn from it?
"Okay, you can pay half the deposit first..."
The gaunt man stood up, about to speak.
"boom--"
A loud bang suddenly came from behind the two of them. The metal door, along with stone fragments, crashed into the corridor with the shockwave. Immediately after the explosion, a series of blast gun shots were fired.
"Biu!" "Biu!" "Biu!"
The red burst of energy beams moved through the room.
The moment the door burst open, Fu Qinghai lunged forward, smashing through the table and grabbing the man as they rolled into a pile of junk, dodging the incoming energy beams.
"Slizebagno, you're under arrest!"
A group of assault team members in white armor stormed into the building. Some were carrying standard E-11 blaster rifles, while others wielded riot shields and extendable stun batons. Upon entering, they immediately split into several groups and began searching the various rooms. Simultaneously, their rough, filtered voices from their helmets shouted:
"You are accused of trafficking in state secrets, endangering public safety, and treason. Come out and surrender immediately!"
At this moment, Fu Qinghai was buried under a broken table and a pile of debris. Looking at the gaunt man in his arms, he realized that the man's name was "Slizebagno," but he was now lifeless and on the verge of death.
He was shot twice in the chest.
Speaking of the marksmanship of the assault team members.
This is a very unlucky thing.
There was no scene of blood flowing freely; his left chest was pierced by the high-temperature burst of energy, and the wound, along with the lung inside his chest cavity, was sealed by charred flesh before it could bleed.
This is the effect of the blaster hitting a human body.
"Uh... go, go, 72 Felin Street."
The gaunt man trembled, gasping for breath like a broken bellows, and managed to squeeze out a few words from his throat:
"Find, find, Tonge, Tonge Flores..."
After he finished speaking, his head drooped limply.
What does that mean? Are you saying you'd rather die than miss this job?
Fu Qinghai frowned and couldn't help but think to himself:
Isn't that a bit... overly dedicated?
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