Chapter 99 - 99: The Omnissiah’s Auditor

A Cogitator Engine. In the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium, this was the standard for computing. It wasn't a silicon chip or a motherboard; it was a fusion of gothic machinery and "Wetware"—a living, biological brain housed in a brass-and-iron tank.

Some were animal brains, others were cloned human tissue grown in nutrient vats. The most efficient—and most disturbing—were harvested from the skulls of living subjects. Because their processing power was low by ancient standards, the Imperium solved the problem with scale. A single battleship was filled with thousands of these "Brain-Boxes," each performing a single dedicated task until the grey matter finally rotted.

After finalizing his deal with Rudolphson, Kian returned to his Sanctum through the Great Ventilator. He spent the next few days in a cycle of intensive training, his stats creeping upward as he pushed his physical and psionic limits.

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